Rootly
Senior Platform Engineer
Toronto, CAN · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 224 days ago
GoRubyRailsDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLRedisDynamoDBAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaIncident ResponseFigmaCanvaLeadership
About the role
- This is a rare opportunity to join Rootly as an early engineer and fundamentally shape our trajectory.
- You'll work on infrastructure that underpins incident response and on-call for some of the most forward-thinking teams in the world.
- You'll work closely with product engineers and customers alike to ensure we're always one step ahead.
Responsibilities
- Own our CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, monitoring systems, and incident response processes.
- Build tools and automation to eliminate manual toil, improve engineering velocity and developer experience, and improve system reliability.
- Collaborate deeply across engineering to understand systems at the code level and surface cross-cutting reliability, performance, and scaling concerns early.
- Drive capacity planning efforts to ensure our infrastructure is resilient and scalable as we grow.
- Define and manage SLOs and error budgets in partnership with Engineering teams who own production services.
- At Rootly, engineers are expected to take initiative and deliver high-leverage work-whether it's building automation to remove toil, improving our observability stack, or making our services more resilient.
- We do this by building an industry-leading incident management platform that allows companies around the world to consistently and quickly resolve incidents.
Requirements
- You don't need a fancy degree or a resume full of logos.
- What matters is your ability to execute, influence, and inspire.
- Strong understanding of observability, performance tuning, and scaling strategies.
- What You'll Need You don't need a fancy degree or a resume full of logos.
Nice to have
- You have a big-picture systems mindset and a proactive approach to reliability.
- You're comfortable taking ownership of complex problems-and seeing them through.
- Experience with Ruby and Go is a plus.
- Our Tech Stack Backend: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, AWS Lambdas, Kafka, DynamoDB Frontend: Turbo, Stimulus, ViewComponents Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform (IaC) Why Rootly?
- We're not just another startup.
- Unlimited token usage and access to AI tools A fast-moving, high-impact environment where your leadership and ideas directly shape the future of the company.
- Rootly is an equal opportunity employer.
- 5+ years of experience in an SRE, Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
Benefits
- We conduct monthly financial reviews as a team so everyone has a pulse on the health of the business and publish what we are building in our weekly changelog.
- Competitive compensation and early equity in a fast-growing, venture-backed company.
Company info
- About Rootly At Rootly, we are on a mission to be the go-to way companies respond when things go wrong, helping every organization be more reliable.
- We are not simply transforming an industry, we are carving an entirely new +$B segment ourselves and need incredible talent to achieve this ambitious goal together.
- Customers love Rootly.
- See why our customers have reviewed us 5 stars on G2.
- We are backed by some of the most respected funds in the world from Y Combinator to operators like the CTO of Dropbox and GitHub.
This listing is sourced directly from Rootly's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.