Top Hat

Senior Platform Engineer

Canada

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Information Technology & ServicesIndustries

Position Overview

  • Location Type: Remote
  • Employment Type: Full-Time
  • Salary:

We’re looking for an engineer experienced with DevOps/SRE practices to join our Platform team. The primary objective of this team is to improve our software delivery performance and availability by driving DevOps culture, tools, infrastructure and practices across Engineering within the Product Development department. Besides the multiplicative impact of your own contributions, this role is a good mentorship opportunity for teams learning to build and operate their own services. We are open to remote candidates based anywhere across Canada in this role.

Responsibilities

  • Scale continuous deployment practices across the department.
  • Equip our teams to ship software reliably, frequently, with minimal trouble.
  • Work with tools and infrastructure, in addition to managing processes and practices, to enable teams to practice DevOps (end-to-end production ownership within each cross-functional team).
  • Extend our reusable service template and its associated CI/CD tooling.
  • Build and extend our production observability.
  • Help teams manage and achieve SLOs.
  • Participate in on-call activities.
  • Coach teams on operational ownership.
  • Lead and teach blame-free root cause analysis for incidents that impact the customer or our delivery performance.
  • Continue to build and optimize platform capabilities driven via infrastructure-as-code.

Requirements

  • You are an advocate for DevOps practices and principles.
  • Hands-on experience with configuration automation (Terraform), CI / deployment automation (Github Actions), Docker, observability tooling (Honeycomb) and cloud providers (AWS ECS).
  • Exposure to software development practices, whether as a developer or in operational roles that involve coding (e.g., Python, Golang).
  • Understanding of mature operational practices and experience in building, managing, and maintaining scalable infrastructure.

Company Information (Why team members love working at Top Hat)

  • A noble mission that creates meaningful, fulfilling work.
  • A team that cares deeply for customers and for each other.
  • Flexible, remote-first work environment.
  • Professional learning and development for all role levels.
  • An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ.
  • Competitive health benefits that start on day one.
  • A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection.
  • Our winning strategy and market potential.
  • Innovative PTO policy with lots of time and space for self-care.
  • Passionate customers that believe in us—and what we do.
  • A chance to work with new tech like generative AI—and see the customer impact.

Skills

DevOps
SRE
Terraform
Github Actions
Docker
Honeycomb
AWS ECS
Python
Golang

Top Hat

Provides educational tools and resources

About Top Hat

Top Hat provides educational tools and resources aimed at enhancing the learning experience for both educators and students. Its main products include Top Hat Pages, which allows educators to personalize content easily, and interactive response tools that engage students during lessons. Additionally, Top Hat offers a collection of fully editable textbooks, giving educators the flexibility to tailor their teaching materials. Unlike many competitors, Top Hat focuses on creating a user-friendly platform that caters to diverse learning needs across entire campuses, making it suitable for both individual courses and whole institutions. The goal of Top Hat is to empower educators to deliver personalized and equitable learning experiences, ensuring that education is accessible and engaging for all students.

Toronto, CanadaHeadquarters
2009Year Founded
$228.5MTotal Funding
SERIES_ECompany Stage
Consumer Software, EducationIndustries
201-500Employees

Risks

Increased competition may erode Top Hat's market share in EdTech.
Recent layoffs could affect employee morale and service quality.
CEO transition might lead to strategic shifts misaligned with market trends.

Differentiation

Top Hat transforms passive lectures into active learning with interactive tools.
The platform offers customizable, editable textbooks for personalized learning experiences.
Top Hat supports hybrid learning models, catering to both in-person and online environments.

Upsides

AI adoption in education enhances Top Hat's personalized learning capabilities.
Hybrid learning models expand Top Hat's market reach in higher education.
Data-driven decision-making trends increase demand for Top Hat's analytics tools.

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