Senior Platform Engineer - Remote Opportunity at Shakepay

About the Role

Join Shakepay as a Senior Platform Engineer and play a pivotal role in our mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. This remote position allows you to work from anywhere in Canada while contributing to a dynamic team focused on revolutionizing financial services.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure that supports Shakepay’s growing platform.
• Develop internal tooling and automation that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices to manage our systems effectively.
• Build and maintain observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• Design and build AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate tasks and augment engineering productivity.
• Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability across our platform.
• Collaborate closely with product engineers on infrastructure design and operational best practices.
• Participate in incident response and contribute to improving operational processes.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
• Help shape the technical direction of our infrastructure and developer platform.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles.
• Strong programming experience in languages like Go, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and performance.
• Experience improving developer experience through tooling or platform improvements.
• Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity.
• Experience working in highly collaborative engineering teams.
• A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems.

Nice to Have

• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, ArgoCD, Helm, or Datadog.
• Experience building infrastructure in fintech or high-compliance environments.
• Familiarity with Bitcoin and curiosity to learn more.

What We Offer

• Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited).
• Stock options as part of total compensation.
• Yearly salary assessments.
• Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
• Remote-friendly work environment with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
• A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
• 20 days of vacation per year with a $1,000 bonus if you use all your vacation time.
• Parental leave top-up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
• Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite events.

We believe that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you're eager to learn, grow, and contribute to our mission, we encourage you to apply!