Senior AI Platform Developer building scalable AI services and LLM workflows for MaintainX’s industrial work execution platform. Improving reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency.
About the role
- Infrastructure team lead building and operating Spare’s GCP and Kubernetes platform for on-demand transit. Leading developers while improving reliability, security, AI SRE, and cloud cost efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Infrastructure Platform Team responsible for Spare’s core cloud infrastructure platform
- Own design and development of infrastructure platform capabilities from inception to launch
- Build and evolve tooling, automation, and platform services for engineering teams
- Architect and implement scalable distributed systems on GCP and Kubernetes
- Improve cluster reliability, application resilience, and internal access security
- Operate and maintain Redis and PostgreSQL databases, including tuning, scaling, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery
- Drive AI SRE practices for incident detection, alert triage, and operational workflows
- Manage and improve the SRE on-call rotation, escalation paths, and blameless post-mortems
- Drive FinOps, cloud spend visibility, right-sizing, and cost optimization
- Use AI agentic tooling daily and coach the team in its use
- Mentor software developers and increase team capacity
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and software developers
- Ensure 99.99% uptime and exceptional system performance
- Participate in agile rituals and improve software development processes
- Split time approximately 50/50 between hands-on technical contribution and people leadership
- Travel to up to four customer site visits per year and attend biannual Vancouver hackathons
- Manage four direct-report software developers
Requirements
- 7+ years of software development experience, with at least 2+ years in a people leadership role
- Expert backend technology and strong distributed systems experience
- Proficiency with AI-assisted and agentic development workflows
- Experience operating systems at scale with a strong reliability and uptime mindset
- Experience running or managing an SRE on-call rotation, including incident response and post-mortem culture
- Deep experience with GCP and Kubernetes
- Experience driving cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tooling, especially Terraform
- Understanding of security best practices, internal access control, and container security
- Demonstrated success managing software developers and individual/team performance
- Demonstrated ability to mentor developers and provide technical leadership
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and system design skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Legally entitled to work in Canada without additional sponsorship
- Able to work hybrid three days per week in downtown Vancouver
- Nice-to-have: transit or safety-critical domain experience; internal developer platforms; AI/LLM tooling for SRE; CI/CD at scale; PostgreSQL and Redis production operations
Benefits
- Equity options
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work on challenging technical problems with real-world impact
- Fast-paced, high-impact role in a rapidly growing startup
- Ownership of core systems and opportunity to drive innovation
- Dynamic, collaborative, and supportive team culture
- Participation in biannual software development hackathons in Vancouver
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