Senior / Staff Platform Developer

Company Description

Headquartered in Montreal and Berlin, Vention helps manufacturers automate their operations in record time with the only hardware and software AI-powered platform built for the factory floor. Our technology powers over 25,000 machines across 4,000 factories across 5 continents and we have the privilege to work with a significant proportion of Fortune 500 manufacturers, from space rockets, to electrical cars, to robotics.

At Vention, you’ll work alongside driven and talented people who care deeply about their craft and the impact they create. We’re a team of high achievers who grow through meaningful work, solving complex challenges, learning fast, and seeing the results of our efforts every day.

We move quickly and aim high, but we do it together with care, collaboration, and respect. Our culture celebrates diverse perspectives and supports your growth through intentional development, strong leadership, and opportunities to make a real difference.

Job Description

As a Senior/Staff Platform Developer at Vention, you will focus on developing the internal development platform and promoting the DevSecOps practice to increase developer productivity, observability, operational reliability and cloud/application cybersecurity through well-orchestrated automated services for code/configuration and delivery across development and production environments. You will be a key player for managing our software inventory and lifecycle and ensure we have upgrade paths for our tools and software packages before they reach end-of-support status. You will also be responsible for ensuring that all of our cloud and embedded production systems have adequate monitoring for uptime and health. 

You will participate in the establishment of troubleshooting best practices and create playbooks for dealing with emergency production downtime scenarios. Exemplary documentation skills will be needed to create guides and thorough inventory/statuses around our systems and best practices. This is a highly collaborative role and will require hands-on interactions with all development leaders and senior technology management to guide, implement and promote DevSecOps initiatives.

You will report directly to the Director of Software Platform Engineering as part of the DevSecOps team.

What you will be doing:

• Participate in the development of Vention’s Internal Development Platform.
• Participate in the development of scalable, high performance, highly-availability and secure cloud environments.
• Participate in the development of secure solutions for vulnerability scanning, secrets management, code quality checks, and dependency management aligned with security policies and compliance.
• Be responsible for building and establishing Vention’s code pipeline (CI/CD) and ensuring a nimble, cost-effective cloud self-served platform which is composed of a development and production environments that are at parity for both cloud systems.
• Create solutions to close the gap between edge deployments (embedded controllers) and the production cloud platform.
• Create data pipeline architecture that are used for analytics and machine learning training.
• Ensure proper performance, reliability and security observability of all production software and systems.
• Work with development teams to ensure DevSecOps best practices are followed.
• Work with development teams to establish deployment and continuous improvement of infrastructure services.
• Participate in incident response, forensic and post mortem activities.
• Establish troubleshooting best practices.
• Help optimize our AWS cost and infrastructure and work with teams to create efficient cloud architecture.

Qualifications

• 7 - 15+ years in DevOps/Platform engineering or in a similar software engineering role.
• Good knowledge of any of the modern programming languages and a strong understanding of overall web software architecture.
• Experience with managing and optimizing one of the following PaaS: AWS; GCP; or Azure.
• Experience in establishing server monitoring and creating automated reporting and observability with tools such as Datadog, Sentry, SumoLogic, etc.
• Strong understanding of deploying and orchestrating containers (Kubernetes, Docker etc.), targeting tiny and large hardware platforms (from arm-based embedded devices to large multi-tenant systems).
• A solid understanding of architecture trade-offs (reliability, performance, security, maintainability, testability, operability, etc).
• Experience with modem CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.
• Experience with configuration management & provisioning experience with knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with implementation of cloud cybersecurity best practices
• Experience with linux platforms, scripting, networking, etc.
• Experience with incremental building and caching.
• Experience with dependency management.
• Experience with operation and deploying IoT systems.
• A good understanding of cost trade-offs (at deployment, build-time, run-time, development-time, and with respect to hardware resources).
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills

Additional Information

What We Offer

• Career pathing:  Real opportunities to grow through personalized development plans, bi-annual employee reviews, and mentorship program 
• Professional development: Continuous training in performance management, inclusive leadership, leadership operating model, team building, and giving/receiving feedback
• Gender diversity & inclusion:  Pay equity reviews, inclusive policies, and a Women’s Employee Resource Group offering networking, mentorship, and quarterly learning sessions.
• Hybrid work:  Enjoy flexibility with our hybrid model, allowing you to work from home on select days.
• Community engagement:  Two paid volunteering days per year to give back to causes you care about.
• Central location:  Regular team gatherings and a collaborative office space in the heart of Montreal, surrounded by cafés and restaurants.
• Team events:  All year round employee events including annual kick-off, employee summit, quarterly happy hours, and department events.
• Comprehensive benefits: A complete group benefits plan for you and your family that start day one.
• Top-up and benefits for new parents:  Additional financial support and resources to support employees during their transition to parenthood.

What to Expect in Your Interview

• Initial Call
• Meet the Team
• Case or take-home interview
• Decision & Offer

We’re committed to making every step of the process inclusive and accessible. If you require accommodations at any stage, please let us know, we’ll ensure you have what you need to succeed.

Professional Growth & Development

Vention believes strongly in promotion from within. For this reason, we structured a comprehensive professional development program that elevate high-performing individuals who deeply understand the inner workings of Vention. This program encompasses:

• In-house coaching program with former industry executives working with small cohort of emerging leaders
• Quarterly management training on topics ranging from “Giving & Receiving Feedback, to Building high-performing teams, to "Developing your own Leadership model”
• Quarterly World-Class Speaker Series featuring industry leaders sharing their perspective and lessons learned as they build their function and business
• Dedicated professional development channels sponsored by the Executive team to foster continuous professional learning
• Book allocation program to further your knowledge in your domain of expertise or any business leadership topics

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Vention

When you join Vention, you join a team of professionals with diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. Together, we’re building a workplace where everyone belongs, feels valued, and can achieve extraordinary results.

We celebrate differences in ideas, in experiences, and in people. Our initiatives in gender equity, career growth, and leadership development are designed to create real opportunities for everyone to thrive.

Vention’s culture

Vention is an uplifting environment for high achievers. Thinking that Vention’s culture would keep you energized? See our full culture guide  here .