Wavelo
Manager, Engineering - Platform Engineering
Canada
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$160kDetected 13 days ago
GoBackend DevelopmentKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringRESTKafkaDesign SystemsLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- This role is primarily technical - you'll stay close to the code and architecture while providing the leadership and direction a senior team needs to do its best work.
- You'll work across backend services, DevOps practices, and event-driven infrastructure to establish patterns the rest of engineering depends on.
- This role is fully remote for applicants based in Canada.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering leadership to evolve and standardize the foundational architecture for a cloud-native, event-driven telecom platform - identifying areas for improvement and driving safe, incremental modernization alongside active development
- Own developer experience: build tooling, CI pipeline performance, dependency management, and inner-source contribution models across a shared monorepo
- Govern shared UI component standards and design system practices used across teams
- Establish and maintain engineering standards: RFCs, ADRs, architecture reviews
- Partner closely with Operations and SRE to define observability standards (tracing, logging, metrics), SLO/SLI frameworks, and reliability practices
- Manage and develop a small, established team of senior engineers
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with hands-on proficiency in Golang or similar languages
- Deep experience with event-driven and async architectures - Kafka, NATS, or comparable systems
- Experience defining engineering standards at an org level - RFCs, ADRs, or architecture review processes
Nice to have
- Experience in telecom, BSS/OSS, or similarly complex domain platforms
- AI-first mindset: you actively use AI tooling and advocate for it in your team's workflow
- Architectural depth: you can zoom out to the system and zoom in to the implementation
- Low ego, high ownership: you'll write code and stay close to the work alongside your team
- Other countries will differ.
- Want to know more about what we stand for?
- We celebrate multiple approaches and diverse points of view.
- We use AI-enabled tools throughout our recruitment process to help us work more efficiently and consistently.
Skills
- Experience managing or mentoring engineers, with a bias toward growing people through the work
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and incomplete requirements
- location, experience and qualifications.
- Tucows believes in a total rewards offering that includes fair compensation and generous benefits.
- Learn more about Tucows Benefits.
- Please contact us to request an accommodation.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $160,000 CAD for Canadian residents.
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