Platform Engineer

Providius•Hamilton, ON

10d•Onsite

About The Position

We’re looking for a platform engineer to build and operate the systems our software depends on. You’ll own the pipelines, services, and infrastructure that take work from prototype to dependable, production-grade operation, with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and performance. This role is ideal for someone who is comfortable operating with autonomy, can work through ambiguity, and takes ownership of their work end to end. You’ll contribute hands-on, participate in architectural decisions, and help set the standards for how production systems are built and run.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building and operating production software or data systems
Strong fundamentals in computer science and software engineering
Experience building and maintaining pipelines, services, or distributed systems
Comfortable working across backend services, data, and infrastructure
Experience with real-time, streaming, or high-throughput systems
Experience working with machine learning or AI-driven systems, including integrating or operationalizing models
Experience writing clean, testable, and maintainable code
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
Effective communication and collaboration in a team environment

Nice To Haves

Experience with high-availability and performance optimization
Familiarity with workflow orchestration and scheduling
Familiarity with streaming frameworks such as Kafka or Flink
Familiarity with networking concepts (a strong plus in our domain)

Responsibilities

Build, operate, and maintain the pipelines, services, and infrastructure that support production workloads
Take features and components from concept through deployment, owning them end to end
Design for reliability, scalability, and performance under real-world conditions
Develop and maintain testing, monitoring, and observability so issues are caught early
Debug and resolve issues across the system, including production environments when needed
Collaborate with teammates to break down problems, define requirements, and iterate on solutions
Contribute to improving development workflows, tooling, and overall engineering practices