Shakepay
Staff Platform Engineer
Remote, Canada · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$214k-$266kDetected 13 days ago
JavaScriptPythonGoDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLAWSKubernetesTerraformHelmDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaLLMsIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationArgo CD
About the role
- In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, which allows shakers to earn Bitcoin rewards when they shop.
- Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their Bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future.
- We're regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, backed by renowned venture capitalists, and have $44M in funding.
Responsibilities
- Design and build foundational infrastructure that supports our growing systems and teams
- Lead the development of internal tooling and automation that significantly improves developer productivity
- Architect and implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across the platform
- Build and evolve observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
- Design and implement AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate operational and development tasks
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to drive best practices in system design and operations
- Lead technical initiatives that span multiple engineering teams
- Mentor engineers and guide technical decision-making through design reviews and architecture discussions
- Contribute to incident response and drive improvements to operational resilience
- If you're the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
- Strong programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar)
- Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems
- Experience designing internal platforms or developer tooling used by multiple teams
- Experience improving developer experience and engineering velocity through platform improvements
- Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians.
Nice to have
- Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, ArgoCD, Helm, or Datadog
- Experience designing internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure
- Experience supporting high-scale production systems
- Familiarity with Bitcoin and curiosity to learn more
- A folder of SafeForWork reaction memes
Compensation
- Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation.
- Yearly salary assessments.
- The base salary range for this position is $ 214,000 - $266,000 CAD.
- Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and role level.
- Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.
- 🥅 Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments.
- 🆙 Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
Benefits
- 🤝 Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation.
- 🦷 Health & wellness: Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
- 🌴 Time off: 20 days of vacation per year.
- We will give you a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation time.
- 🐣 Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
Company info
- What we're looking for:
- At Shakepay, we're on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age.
- We're reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.
- Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success.
- Our passionate, loyal, and growing community is looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.
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