Platform Engineer

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Base pay range

CA$140,000.00/yr - CA$250,000.00/yr

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Location: Fully Remote

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

Our client is a well-funded, forward-thinking technology company on a mission to transform how developers work with data. Their platform, built around PostgreSQL, supports organizations operating at scale—handling not just high data volumes but also the complexity of fast-growing teams, staging environments, data privacy, and zero-downtime schema changes.

They’re deeply committed to developer experience , performance , and operational excellence , maintaining an open and transparent engineering culture rooted in collaboration and community.

The Role

As a Platform Engineer , you’ll help design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering a cutting-edge data platform used by developers worldwide. You’ll work closely with backend and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and observable systems.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Designing and implementing scalable, cloud-native services.
• Managing infrastructure as code using Kubernetes , Pulumi (Go) , and Terraform .
• Automating deployments and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintaining observability and monitoring systems.
• Participating in shared on-call responsibilities.
• (Optional) Sharing knowledge through talks or blog posts.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Solid understanding of PostgreSQL .
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and running databases in Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools.
• Coding experience in Python , Go , or TypeScript , focused on clean, maintainable code.
• Familiarity with observability , monitoring , and incident management .
• Deep experience operating data-intensive products at scale.

Why You’ll Love This Opportunity

• Competitive salary + stock options
• 2 months fully paid parental leave
• ✈️ 2 annual company offsites (past trips: Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal & Iceland!)
• Learning budget for courses, books, and conferences
• Remote-first, asynchronous work culture — flexible and empowering
• Inclusive, diverse environment (40% women, female-founded leadership, all-female board)

The leadership team brings over a decade of experience running global remote organizations and building successful developer-focused products.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our client is passionate about creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive. They actively support initiatives that mentor and uplift underrepresented talent in tech.

If you’re from an underrepresented group in tech, they strongly encourage you to apply — they’re rooting for you.

Ready to build platforms that power the future of data?

Apply now and join a remote-first team where impact, autonomy, and growth go hand in hand.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development, Data Infrastructure and Analytics, and IT System Data Services