Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote (Canada)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing the strategic direction of our fintech solutions' foundation. With your extensive experience and technical leadership, you'll be expected to drive innovation, scalability, and reliability within our cloud-based infrastructure, while mentoring and guiding junior engineers. Your responsibilities will include architecting and building sophisticated Infrastructure tooling on top of AWS primitives, collaborating with cross-functional teams such as security, development, and operations to achieve ambitious infrastructure goals, and contributing to the strategic planning of our infrastructure roadmap.

We are committed to being secure, available, fully automated, repeatable, Cloud Native, and an active part of the technology community. Our team is dedicated to reducing operational costs by creating robust infrastructure and scaffolding that enables our engineering user community to deploy multi-region, highly-available services with ease and efficiency.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within Canada. We'd love for you to join us and make a significant impact!

The Impact You Will Make

• Spearhead the design, implementation, and optimization of software solutions that enable resilient and scalable infrastructure provisioning, supporting the engineering user community and our core payments platform.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers and team members.
• Architect and develop advanced automation strategies to enhance safety standards and ensure compliance at scale across our infrastructure.
• Take a leadership role in shaping our IaC policies, developing sophisticated IaC modules aligned with industry best practices, and implementing cutting-edge detection capabilities for non-compliant architecture.
• Drive innovation in tooling to dramatically improve developer productivity and significantly reduce operational overhead.
• Collaborate closely with the security team to architect and implement robust, state-of-the-art security measures for our cloud infrastructure.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, plus 8 years of relevant experience in software engineering and cloud infrastructure.
• Mastery of programming languages and scripting for automation, with a focus on Python, Ruby, or Go, and the ability to mentor others in these technologies.
• Extensive experience with AWS services, including but not limited to CodeBuild, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and AWS access control.
• Ability to be an "ambiguity assassin" and lead and execute cross-functional projects to achieve infrastructure excellence.
• Role in yearly audits, ensuring our systems meet the highest standards of performance and compliance.
• Lead and drive the strategic planning of our infrastructure roadmap, aligning technical capabilities with business objectives.