1 month ago
Toronto, Canada or Ottawa, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services for media ingestion, processing, storage, and retrieval at scale.
- Develop event-driven pipelines using AWS services including SQS, S3, Lambda, EKS, Redis, and CloudFront.
- Design media platform APIs and contracts for internal and external consumers, supported by contract and end-to-end tests.
- Implement structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry concepts and observability platforms.
- Own staging and production deployments, including gradual rollouts, canary releases, and infrastructure or feature A/B tests.
- Monitor and optimize cloud networking, storage tiering, compute, processing pipelines, cost, performance, and reliability.
- Diagnose complex cross-service, intermittent, and load-dependent production issues.
- Contribute to media-platform architecture, service boundaries, data models, and integration contracts.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
- Improve team tooling, runbooks, processes, and AI-assisted development workflows.
Requirements
- Senior-level backend or backend-leaning full-stack engineering experience owning production services end-to-end for low-latency, high-volume data.
- Hands-on AWS experience with SQS, EKS, Redis, CloudFront, S3, and Lambda, including understanding of their operational characteristics and limits.
- Strong use of AI tools throughout the development lifecycle and willingness to adapt development workflows as AI capabilities evolve.
- Experience with observability and a strong conceptual understanding of OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs.
- Practical experience managing staging and production environments, gradual or canary rollouts, and A/B tests for infrastructure or service changes.
- Experience optimizing cloud networking, storage configuration, and processing pipelines for cost, performance, and reliability.
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals, including asynchronous processing, eventual consistency, idempotency, and failure handling.
- Experience with modern backend development, API design, production reliability, and complex cross-service troubleshooting.
- Ability to influence technical decisions, improve brownfield services, and work independently under pressure.
- Experience with media, video, or high-throughput binary-data pipelines such as WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, or ffmpeg is preferred.
- Kubernetes and cloud-native operations experience, including observability, metrics, tracing, incident response, and SLOs, is preferred.
- Experience with GCP, Azure, TypeScript, Rust, or high-growth environments is preferred.
- Candidates must be Canadian citizens or eligible to work in Canada, undergo a criminal records check, and comply with Solink security policies.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time hybrid role in Ottawa or Toronto.
- Meaningful equity for full-time permanent employees.
- Fully paid health and dental benefits with no waiting period plus a $500 health spending account.
- Monthly reimbursement for fitness, wellness, or mental-health programs.
- Flexible work arrangements where the role permits.
- Career advancement based on contribution and initiative.
- Social and team connection activities including So-learns, Solink-o, and So-lunches.
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