Staff Platform Engineer
Shakepay is a Canadian platform designed for buying and selling Bitcoin and Ethereum. It aims to make cryptocurrency accessible to Canadians, offering commission-free transactions, rewards programs like ShakingSats for free bitcoin, and a Shakepay Card for earning bitcoin cashback. The service is regulated and focuses on security and user control over their digital assets.
About Shakepay
Shakepay is a Canadian platform that allows users to buy, sell, and earn cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The service emphasizes ease of use, enabling users to set up an account and begin transactions within minutes. Key features include commission-free trading at market-leading prices, the ability to earn bitcoin rewards through various activities such as shaking the phone (ShakingSats), cashback on purchases with the Shakepay Card, and a referral program. The platform supports direct deposits and allows users to move their digital assets to a private wallet or cash out to a bank account quickly. Shakepay highlights its security measures, including keeping digital currencies in secure, offline storage backed by insurance. The company is regulated as a member of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), registered as an Investment Dealer in all Canadian provinces and territories, and licensed as a Money Service Business by FINTRAC.
Skills
About the Role
You will design and evolve the internal developer platform and foundational infrastructure that enables engineering teams to build, ship, and operate software quickly and reliably. You will build internal tooling and automation, implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps, and develop observability including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards. You will design and implement AI-powered tools and agentic workflows to automate tasks, improve system reliability, scalability, and performance, and participate in incident response. You will lead cross-team technical initiatives, mentor engineers, run design reviews, and influence long-term platform architecture and operational practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
- Strong programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar)
- Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems
- Experience designing internal platforms or developer tooling used by multiple teams
- Experience improving developer experience and engineering velocity through platform improvements
- Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity
- Strong system design and architectural thinking
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the architecture of the internal developer platform
- Design and build foundational infrastructure that supports growing systems and teams
- Lead the development of internal tooling and automation to improve developer productivity
- Architect and implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across the platform
- Build and evolve observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
- Design and implement AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows to automate tasks
- Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance across production environments
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to drive best practices in system design and operations
- Lead technical initiatives that span multiple engineering teams
- Mentor engineers and guide technical decision-making through design reviews and architecture discussions
- Contribute to incident response and drive improvements to operational resilience
- Influence the long-term technical direction of infrastructure and platform ecosystem
Benefits
- Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited)
- Stock options for all employees
- Yearly salary assessments
- Health and dental coverage including health and wellness spending accounts
- Remote work from anywhere in Canada with optional office access in Montreal and Toronto
- $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training
- 20 days of vacation per year and a $1,000 bonus for using all vacation time
- Parental leave top-up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks
- Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites