Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Compute Platform)

Role overview Lead the design and operation of a shared Kubernetes compute platform that supports production services across multiple regions and environments. The role focuses on making a large Amazon EKS fleet reliable, secure, automated, and easy for engineering teams to use, while setting technical direction and helping other engineers grow.

Responsibilities - Set strategy for cluster lifecycle, node management, shared components, and platform evolution. - Automate cluster provisioning, upgrades, and retirement through infrastructure as code and self-service workflows. - Maintain the reliability and consistent delivery of core Kubernetes services and their deployment pipeline. - Establish workload safety standards and build policy and automation that make them broadly adoptable. - Improve fleet observability, audits, and reporting; use the results to identify reliability risks and track mitigation. - Guide capacity and cost decisions, partner with workload teams, mentor engineers, and participate in production on-call response.

Requirements - 10+ years in software or infrastructure engineering, including delivery of complex platform solutions. - 6+ years operating production Kubernetes at scale; EKS experience is especially relevant. - Strong knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, including EC2, VPC, IAM, and EKS, plus Kubernetes scheduling, upgrades, and autoscaling. - Experience automating cluster and node operations, and building production-grade Kubernetes controllers, operators, or platform tooling in Go or Python. - Fluency with Terraform and GitOps or pipeline-based delivery; familiarity with admission policies such as OPA/Gatekeeper or equivalents. - Strong grasp of workload reliability, observability, technical leadership, and cross-team communication.

Benefits and work setup - Remote role within Canada. - The listing describes health coverage for employees and dependents, monthly spending stipends, flexible time off, holiday time, and an employee stock purchase plan.