Senior Platform Engineer
Burq, Inc.2 days ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and execute the AWS account split for production, staging, and development environments.
- Lead the Aurora database production migration and manage ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and ALB infrastructure.
- Own Terraform-based infrastructure as code and the broader platform infrastructure roadmap.
- Harden IAM, secure public S3 buckets, enable AWS Config and Security Hub, and maintain SOC 2 Type 2 readiness.
- Coordinate external penetration testing and improve platform security controls.
- Own GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, PR stack environments, and Docker Compose-based local development environments.
- Integrate AI-assisted testing into CI pipelines.
- Own CloudWatch observability dashboards and lead post-incident reviews and runbook creation.
- Partner with product teams to distribute platform work through standing sprint allocations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering.
- Deep AWS expertise with ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, and account architecture.
- Terraform proficiency and experience building infrastructure as code.
- Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, and environment management.
- Security-minded approach to hardening systems while minimizing friction for product engineers.
- Experience with observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent.
Benefits
- Remote, Canada-based full-time role.
- Competitive salary.
- Medical coverage.
- Access to educational resources and courses.
About Burq, Inc.
Burq builds a delivery management platform and APIs for enterprises that need reliable last‑mile logistics without stitching together multiple carriers and tools. Its Pulse AI agents automate quoting and carrier selection, dispatch across in‑house and third‑party fleets, routing, batching, exception handling, customer updates, and performance analytics for grocery, floral, and specialty retail. Founded in 2021, the company is privately held and raised a Series A in 2024.