Senior Platform Engineer

At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.

Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you're the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!

About Shakepay

Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing shakers to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future. 

We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.

Senior Platform Engineer

Our four-member team’s mission and responsibilities:

• 🌐 Site Reliability: Our mission is to scale our highly available infra reliably.
• 🔧 Empowerment: We provide others with tools to streamline development and operations.
• 🤖 Automation: We code about anything infra to minimize the effort it takes to maintain it.
• 👀 Visibility: We believe in transparency, building visibility into every aspect of our infrastructure.

Join us as a SRE and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Shakepay’s platform.

What you’ll be doing 

• Mentor engineers through code reviews and team discussions
• Implement Infrastructure as code best practices
• Evangelize and lead infrastructure automation culture with GitOps best practices
• Create monitoring, alerting and dashboarding solutions
• Build/deploy/maintain security controls, instrumentation, and detection infrastructure
• Foster innovation while maintaining a high bar for quality, scale, and performance
• Assist DevOps engineers through Pull Request reviews and collaborative design sessions
• Have an influence across the entire engineering team, with correspondingly large impact to customers
• Participate in the on-call rotation and help keeping it sustainable

Who we’re looking for

• 5+ years experience as a SRE/Cloud engineer/DevOps role
• Extensive knowledge of engineering processes, structural design, and system optimization
• Be proficient with shell and programming languages used in a SRE context (bash, cron, python, javascript, golang, curl, grep, etc…)
• Experience with GitOps and infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Experience with infrastructure security and networking
• Experience with incident management
• Experience working with a highly collaborative team
• Driven by business impact

Bonus points

• Experience with technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, DataDog, AWS cloud/SRE suite (Aurora, EKS, VPC, Lambdas, CloudFormation, etc.), postgres, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Node.js
• Experience building fintech infrastructure
• Some bitcoin knowledge, and the urge to learn more
• A folder of SafeForWork reaction memes

Why join

• Help shape the future of money: Be part of a team that's revolutionizing financial services in Canada, one sat at a time.
• Impact millions: As cryptocurrency continues to gain traction, our potential for growth is massive. You can help us bring Shakepay and Bitcoin to all Canadians.
• Grow your career: We’re growing, and so can you! We have programs in place to encourage continuous learning, growth, and development.
• Ideas, not titles: We want the best ideas to make their way through, no matter where they come from.

Perks and benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock options: Get rewarded with competitive pay and join our employee stock option plan.
• Health benefits from day 1: Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. 
• Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
• Learning and development: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
• Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
• Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
• Home office setup: A MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses.
• Salary in bitcoin option: Choose to receive your salary in bitcoin – the soundest money to ever exist.
• Team and company offsites: Whether team-specific or company-wide, these events offer a great chance to connect and collaborate in person.

We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you're eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the “right” experience, we still want you to apply.

We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We’re firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept.

Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians.