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Staff Platform Engineer in Canada new

Rootly
Full time
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Canada
10/28/2026
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Toronto

Responsibilities

Define the platform vision and roadmap with reliability and developer experience as core priorities.
Create sequenced plans, clarify trade-offs, and drive platform standards and service readiness practices across engineering.
Design shared service primitives such as rate limits, fair queues, timeouts, and per-tenant fan-out budgets.
Set observability standards and define SLOs and error budgets with production-service owners.
Convert recurring incident causes into automated guardrails and improve incident and retrospective practices.
Mentor senior engineers, write influential design documentation, and help grow the platform team.

Requirements

8+ years building software in production, including significant experience in Platform, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
Track record of setting technical direction for a platform or infrastructure area and driving impact across multiple teams.
Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, reliability practices, observability, performance tuning, and web-service scaling.
Deep knowledge of Rails and Sidekiq internals, or equivalent depth in another large web framework and job system.
Ability to solve infrastructure problems with production-grade software rather than shell scripts alone.
Strong written communication and ability to create design documents that influence organizational decisions.
Preferred: experience building or leading an internal developer platform with measurable adoption and outcomes.
Preferred: experience creating engineering standards and tooling, leading infrastructure migrations or re-architectures, and working with Ruby and Go.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and early equity in a venture-backed company.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Three weeks of vacation, unlimited sick and mental health days, and a company-wide end-of-year shutdown.
$500 home-office setup stipend.
Unlimited token usage and access to AI tools.

Salary: Competitive

Rootly

Rootly builds an AI-native incident management platform for SRE and DevOps teams, integrated with Slack and Microsoft Teams to coordinate on-call response, resolution, and retrospectives. It sells B2B SaaS subscriptions used by companies such as NVIDIA, Figma, Canva, and Squarespace. The privatel...

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