Staff Software Developer – Production Engineering

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About the role

  • Staff Software Developer enhancing platform reliability at Wealthsimple. Collaborating across engineering teams to prevent incidents and improve operational standards.

Responsibilities

  • Improve the platform to prevent incidents — designing and driving adoption of guardrails, sensible defaults, and engineering standards that reduce the likelihood of failures across services
  • Build tooling that reduces time to mitigation when incidents occur, including contributing to our in-house product on AI-assisted incident response
  • Own the investigation and follow-through on load test findings — translating results into concrete reliability improvements across critical flows
  • Work across platform and product engineering teams as a technical influencer — participating in architecture and readiness reviews, coaching service owners, and driving adoption of scalable reliability practices
  • Identify recurring failure patterns and design platform-level fixes that prevent them from showing up again in a different service
  • Contribute to the team’s reliability syncs with product engineering, helping align on incident themes, critical-flow risks, and the next highest-leverage initiatives

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in platform, infrastructure, or SRE work
  • Demonstrated track record of improving reliability at scale — reducing incidents, building guardrails, or driving operational standards across multiple teams
  • Strong proficiency in backend systems and distributed architecture; you can diagnose complex failure modes across a service mesh
  • Experience with load testing and capacity planning, and the ability to translate findings into concrete engineering improvements
  • Proven ability to work across engineering teams as a technical influencer — driving adoption of standards and practices without direct authority
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, Argo and modern deployment tooling
  • Strong written and verbal communication — comfortable presenting findings and recommendations to both engineering teams and senior leadership.

Benefits

  • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
  • Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
  • 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year
  • 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year
  • Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Kubernetes

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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