Engineering Manager, Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of platform engineers specializing in Infrastructure, DevOps, and Developer Experience.

• Establish the technical vision for platform architecture and ensure the successful execution of the roadmap.

• Balance immediate project delivery with long-term investments in tools, infrastructure, and reliability.

• Manage cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational tools within a regulated environment.

• Design and create AI-driven internal tools and automated workflows that enhance task efficiency and boost engineering productivity.

• Enhance developer productivity by minimizing obstacles in onboarding, CI/CD, and local-to-production workflows.

• Ensure systems remain secure, scalable, observable, and resilient as Shakepay expands.

• Take ownership of incident management practices, postmortems, and the sustainability of the on-call rotation.

• Work closely with product engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders.

• Promote platform initiatives by linking technical projects to business outcomes and customer value.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE positions.

• More than 3 years of experience in managing and developing high-performing teams.

• Proficiency with technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, PostgreSQL, CI/CD tooling, and GitOps.

• Experience in operating production systems and participating in on-call rotations.

• Capability to set the technical direction for both developer experience and infrastructure.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with an emphasis on business impact.

• Familiarity with utilizing AI tools in daily workflows to enhance development, debugging, and learning processes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited).

• Stock options included in total compensation.

• Comprehensive health and dental benefits, along with a dedicated budget for mental health support.

• Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.

• An annual budget of $2,000 for courses, certifications, and training to foster your career growth.

• 20 days of vacation per year. If you utilize all your vacation, you receive a $1,000 bonus.

• Parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for up to 18 weeks.

• Quarterly offsite events for team-specific or company-wide engagement.