Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure based in Canada.

This is a Staff-level infrastructure engineering role focused on building the platform foundations that enable engineering teams to move faster and operate more reliably.
You’ll combine hands-on software engineering with technical leadership, shaping self-service infrastructure, cloud platforms, deployment systems, and operational tooling.
A major focus will be replacing expert-driven provisioning and operational workflows with paved roads that provide clear ownership, safe defaults, strong guardrails, and measurable adoption.
You’ll help evolve multi-region, cross-account infrastructure and Kubernetes foundations while improving reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
The role also includes developing AI-assisted operational workflows that reduce toil while keeping production changes safe, auditable, and human-reviewed.

You’ll influence architecture across teams through RFCs, design reviews, technical standards, and pragmatic engineering decisions.
Working in a small, growing team, you’ll have substantial ownership and the opportunity to drive infrastructure investments through real production adoption.

Accountabilities:
- Turn ambiguous infrastructure challenges into clear technical proposals and drive them through RFCs, architecture reviews, and cross-team alignment.

- Design and build self-service platform capabilities and APIs, primarily in Go, covering onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations.

- Establish reliable delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive delivery, automated testing, and continuous deployment practices.

- Evolve multi-tenant EKS infrastructure to improve reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.

- Develop and improve ingress and traffic-routing capabilities, including Envoy Gateway and multi-region, cross-account connectivity.

- Strengthen SLOs, alerting, incident response, and operational follow-up through Grafana Cloud and improved observability practices.

- Measure success through outcomes for consuming engineering teams, including faster provisioning and deployment, greater self-service, and improved operational reliability.

- Develop AI-assisted operational workflows such as alert enrichment, incident context gathering, runbook-assisted diagnosis, remediation recommendations, and onboarding assistants.

- Maintain appropriate human oversight for AI-assisted operational actions, with an emphasis on safety, auditability, and responsible automation.

- Participate in the on-call rotation after onboarding and shadowing, while helping improve the overall health of on-call through better alerts, runbooks, automation, and blameless postmortems.

- Lead strategic platform initiatives from initial design through production adoption and establish durable technical patterns across engineering teams.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- Strong software engineering expertise in Go or a comparable programming language, including system design, testing, debugging, code review, and long-term maintainability.

- Proven experience designing, delivering, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production.

- Deep expertise in at least one area such as Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms.

- Strong Linux, networking, and production operations fundamentals.

- Experience setting technical direction and leading initiatives that require alignment across multiple engineering teams.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in remote environments and through RFCs, design documents, and incident writeups.

- Experience with EKS, ingress, CNI, or service-mesh technologies is valuable.

- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD, progressive delivery, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and canary deployments is a plus.

- Experience leading large-scale migrations, platform adoption programs, or cross-team infrastructure initiatives is beneficial.

- Strong systems judgment, curiosity, pragmatic decision-making, and the ability to develop deep expertise while navigating adjacent technical domains.

- Willingness to participate in an operational on-call rotation and contribute to improving its effectiveness.

- Visa sponsorship may be considered on a case-by-case basis depending on business needs.

Benefits:

- CA$238,250–CA$382,250 + equity for Canada-based candidates.

- Remote-first work arrangement.

- Flexible scheduling and autonomy in managing your working hours.

- Generous paid time off, quarterly wellness days, and an end-of-year wellness break.

- Home-office support to help create an effective remote workspace.

- Technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month .

- Annual learning and development stipend covering conferences, courses, certifications, and continued professional learning.

- 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.

- Equity participation for full-time employees.

- Medical, retirement, and paid-holiday benefits, with details varying by country.

- Opportunities to lead major infrastructure initiatives involving self-service provisioning, multi-region networking, continuous deployment, Kubernetes, and platform engineering.

- Significant technical ownership within a small, growing infrastructure team.

- Exposure to AI-assisted and agentic operational workflows, with a focus on safe and auditable automation.

- Fully remote collaboration with distributed engineering teams.

- Offices available in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.