Staff Platform Engineer
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.
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Staff Platform Engineer at Shakepay in Remote (Canada). UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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.
Day-to-day expectations
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- Define and evolve the architecture of Shakepay’s internal developer platform
- 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
What a strong candidate brings
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- 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
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- 🤖 AI Enablement: Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited).
- 🤝 Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation.
- 🥅 Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments.
- 🦷 Health & wellness: Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
- 🌎 Remote-friendly : Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
- 🆙 Level Up : A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
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