Rootly

Senior Platform Engineer

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9 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Embed with product teams to improve service observability, reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, monitoring systems, and incident response processes.
  • Build production-grade software, tools, and automation to reduce toil and improve engineering velocity, developer experience, and system reliability.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams at the code level to identify cross-cutting reliability, performance, and scaling concerns.
  • Architect and scale infrastructure for performance, availability, and operational excellence.
  • Drive capacity planning and define and manage SLOs and error budgets with service-owning engineering teams.
  • Advocate for reliability, performance, and scalability across the engineering organization.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in an SRE, Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
  • 5+ years of experience writing software in a production environment.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, reliability practices, observability, performance tuning, and scaling strategies.
  • Deep familiarity with incident response, monitoring, and CI/CD systems.
  • Hands-on experience supporting web or RPC services at meaningful scale.
  • Ability to write production-grade software for infrastructure problems rather than relying only on shell scripts.
  • Systems-level mindset, proactive reliability approach, ownership of complex problems, and ability to influence product-team design and architecture decisions.
  • Ruby and Go experience preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and early equity at a fast-growing, venture-backed company.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Three weeks of vacation, unlimited sick and mental health days, and a company-wide end-of-year shutdown.
  • $500 home office setup stipend.
  • Unlimited token usage and access to AI tools.
  • High-impact environment with substantial ownership and leadership opportunities.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSGoPostgreSQLRedisRubyRuby on RailsTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About Rootly

51-200 employees
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