Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

4 days ago

Vancouver, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and maintain foundational cloud services and platform solutions for low-latency, real-time messaging and APIs.
Own high-throughput messaging systems, including upgrades, performance validation, capacity planning, dashboards, and alerting.
Design and support gRPC and Protobuf APIs and client integrations with robust telemetry.
Lead infrastructure automation and deployment workflows across development, staging, and production environments.
Build monitoring and alerting with Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana to track metrics and service-level objectives.
Configure and optimize reverse proxies and API gateways for reliable and secure ingress and routing.
Oversee PKI, certificate pipelines, and service identities for secure authentication and transport.
Develop and execute end-to-end, integration, and scaling test pipelines.
Advance multi-region reliability, cost and performance optimization, and multi-tenant platform capabilities.

At least 5 years of software engineering experience focused on distributed systems, high-scale backend services, or streaming and messaging platforms.
Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or TypeScript, with foundations in API design, networking, and concurrency.
Production service management experience with observability practices covering traces, logs, and metrics.
Experience participating in on-call rotations.
Working knowledge of AWS, Azure or GCP, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and infrastructure as code solutions such as Crossplane or Terraform.
Preferred: hands-on expertise with NATS, Kafka, MQTT, gRPC, and multi-region or multi-tenant architectures.
Preferred: familiarity with NGINX or Envoy and secure transport and authentication patterns.
Preferred: contributions to or maintenance of high-impact open-source software.

Full-time employees may be eligible for an annual company performance bonus program.
The role is eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units, subject to approval and plan terms.
Benefits include health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs, with offerings varying by country.
The role can be based in Toronto or Vancouver.

1,001-5,000 employees