What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Platform Engineer position at Jobgether?
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Staff Platform Engineer in Canada.
This role sits at the heart of a modern, cloud-native engineering organization building enterprise-grade software that transforms how organizations manage complex contract lifecycles. You will help design and scale a serverless, AI-enabled platform that supports high-volume, high-stakes business processes across global customers. Working closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and AI specialists, you will contribute to both architectural direction and hands-on development. The environment is fast-moving and highly collaborative, with a strong focus on scalability, automation, and developer experience. You will also play a key role in improving infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and internal engineering tools that enable rapid, high-quality delivery. This is a senior technical leadership role combining deep engineering expertise with product impact and mentorship responsibilities.
\n- Design, build, and maintain scalable, cloud-native software applications within an enterprise platform environment.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to define and implement technical solutions for complex, real-world business problems.
- Work closely with AI engineers to integrate and optimize large language model (LLM) capabilities into production systems.
- Lead architectural decisions and contribute to system design discussions alongside senior engineering stakeholders.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and performance through continuous code and infrastructure enhancements.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring frameworks.
- Enhance internal developer tools, workflows, and engineering best practices to improve team efficiency.
- Mentor and support junior engineers while contributing to technical leadership across the team.
- Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery activities across the full application stack.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of software engineering experience, including 3 years in a technical lead, architecture, or senior leadership role.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python in production-grade systems.
- Proven experience building cloud-native, serverless applications on AWS (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and modern software architecture principles.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, SAM or similar) and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
- Solid knowledge of Docker, containerized applications, and orchestration platforms such as ECS.
- Strong understanding of Git, relational databases (Postgres preferred), and data modeling principles.
- Experience working in agile, product-driven engineering environments.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with a user-centric mindset.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor) is highly desirable.
- Interest or experience in building applications leveraging LLM APIs is a strong plus.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation package aligned with senior platform engineering roles.
- Fully remote or flexible work arrangements depending on team structure.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI-enabled SaaS products at enterprise scale.
- Strong focus on professional growth, technical leadership, and career development.
- Inclusive and diverse work environment with emphasis on work-life balance.
- Wellness support, including flexible holidays and wellness days.
- Access to modern engineering tools, cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered development workflows.
- Collaborative culture with high autonomy and impact on product and architecture decisions.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
Why Apply Through Jobgether?
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