Senior Platform Engineer

<h3>Accountabilities</h3><li>
<strong>Design and develop backend systems:</strong>Build, maintain, and operate scalable backend services that move data from cloud warehouse queries to downstream systems, supporting reliable data processing and delivery.</li><li>
<strong>Optimize platform performance:</strong>Improve how services ingest events, execute queries, transform results, and coordinate data delivery, with a focus on correctness, speed, scalability, and operational simplicity.</li><li>
<strong>Build APIs and integrations:</strong>Develop and maintain APIs and integrations across major cloud data warehouses, contributing to the platform's evolution toward real-time data processing and capabilities.</li><li>
<strong>Own production systems end to end:</strong>Take responsibility for services throughout their lifecycle, from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and incident response.</li><li>
<strong>Ensure reliability and operational excellence:</strong>Participate in the on-call rotation, troubleshoot production incidents, coordinate service restoration, communicate with relevant stakeholders, and implement improvements that prevent recurring issues.</li><li>
<strong>Strengthen security and observability:</strong>Identify and resolve issues affecting platform security, reliability, performance, and maintainability as the infrastructure scales.</li><li>
<strong>Develop shared engineering tools:</strong>Create reusable components, automation, documentation, and developer tools that reduce repetitive work and improve engineering team productivity.</li><li>
<strong>Leverage AI and emerging technologies:</strong>Integrate AI tools into daily engineering workflows to improve development speed and quality, while contributing to the development of machine learning and agentic AI products.</li><li>
<strong>Collaborate and mentor:</strong>Provide thoughtful code reviews, share technical context, mentor fellow engineers, communicate proactively, and help establish engineering practices that support high-quality delivery.</li><li>
<strong>Drive customer-focused outcomes:</strong>Investigate customer challenges, identify practical solutions, and validate their effectiveness through testing, measurement, and continuous improvement.</li><h2>Requirements</h2><li>
<strong>Professional experience:</strong>At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience building, deploying, and maintaining production systems, with strong expertise in Python and backend development.</li><li>
<strong>Backend and distributed systems expertise:</strong>Demonstrated experience designing, building, and scaling backend services and distributed architectures, including ownership of systems throughout their production lifecycle.</li><li>
<strong>Cloud infrastructure:</strong>Experience working with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a strong understanding of scalable infrastructure and cloud-based architectures.</li><li>
<strong>Reliability and operations:</strong>Practical experience with production operations, incident response, on-call responsibilities, observability, troubleshooting, and designing systems for reliability and security at scale.</li><li>
<strong>API and data systems:</strong>Strong knowledge of backend APIs, data processing workflows, and system integrations. Experience with cloud data warehouses, query execution systems, event-driven architectures, or real-time data processing is valuable.</li><li>
<strong>AI and emerging technologies:</strong>A demonstrated interest in adopting advanced technologies, including AI agents and AI-assisted development tools, to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and business impact.</li><li>
<strong>Startup experience:</strong>Experience working in a startup or high-growth environment, with the ability to adapt quickly to evolving priorities and changing technical requirements.</li><li>
<strong>Problem-solving and ownership:</strong>A proactive, resourceful approach to complex engineering challenges, with the ability to identify gaps, clarify requirements, make sound decisions, and drive solutions through to completion.</li><li>
<strong>Adaptability and continuous learning:</strong>Comfort working in ambiguous situations, asking critical questions early, learning new technologies quickly, and adjusting approaches as the business evolves.</li><li>
<strong>Communication and teamwork:</strong>Strong collaboration skills, a willingness to give and receive constructive feedback, and the ability to make teammates more effective through mentoring, documentation, and knowledge sharing.</li><li>
<strong>Customer and business orientation:</strong>A commitment to measurable outcomes, with the ability to connect engineering decisions to customer needs and broader business objectives.</li><li>
<strong>Independent and collaborative mindset:</strong>The ability to thrive in a flexible, relatively flat organization where technical leaders remain hands-on and engineers are trusted to take ownership of meaningful problems.</li><h2>Benefits</h2><li>
<strong>Competitive compensation:</strong>Annual base salary ranging from<strong>CAD $160,000 to $175,000</strong>, depending on skills, experience, qualifications, and other relevant factors.</li><li>
<strong>Equity participation:</strong>The opportunity to own equity and share in the value created through your contributions.</li><li>
<strong>Performance recognition:</strong>Spot bonuses for significant milestones and major product feature launches.</li><li>
<strong>Remote-first flexibility:</strong>Work remotely within a distributed team spanning North America and other regions.</li><li>
<strong>Flexible work arrangements:</strong>A goal-oriented working environment that emphasizes outcomes, autonomy, and flexibility.</li><li>
<strong>Flexible time off:</strong>Access to flexible paid time off to support personal well-being and work-life balance.</li><li>
<strong>Company-wide Recharge Days:</strong>Monthly days dedicated to disconnecting from work and recharging.</li><li>
<strong>Home office support:</strong>An annual stipend to help create a comfortable and productive remote workspace.</li><li>
<strong>Comprehensive healthcare:</strong>Fully employer-paid health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance for eligible Canadian employees.</li><li>
<strong>Retirement savings:</strong>Access to an RRSP program with a generous company match for Canadian employees.</li><li>
<strong>Professional development:</strong>An annual development stipend to support continued learning and career growth.</li><li>
<strong>Innovation and collaboration:</strong>Quarterly hackathons that encourage experimentation, creativity, and collaboration on projects driven by team interests.</li><li>
<strong>Career progression:</strong>Clear opportunities for professional advancement and cross-functional collaboration.</li><li>
<strong>Direct leadership access:</strong>The opportunity to work closely with company founders and an experienced executive team.</li><li>
<strong>Meaningful technical impact:</strong>The chance to build and improve AI-powered data and marketing systems used by some of the world's leading brands.</li>