Staff Software Developer, Production Engineering
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Wealthsimple TechnologiesFinancial Technology
Remote (Canada)Full-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- KubernetesSoftware EngineeringHelmDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in platform, infrastructure, or SRE work.
- Demonstrated track record of improving reliability at scale.
- Strong proficiency in backend systems and distributed architecture.
- Ability to diagnose complex failure modes across a service mesh.
- Experience with load testing and capacity planning.
- Ability to translate load testing findings into concrete engineering improvements.
- Proven ability to work across engineering teams as a technical influencer.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, and Argo.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Improve the platform to prevent incidents by designing and driving adoption of guardrails, sensible defaults, and engineering standards.
- Build tooling that reduces time to mitigation when incidents occur, including contributing to in-house AI-assisted incident response products.
- Own the investigation and follow-through on load test findings to drive reliability improvements.
- Work across platform and product engineering teams as a technical influencer by participating in architecture reviews and coaching service owners.
- Identify recurring failure patterns and design platform-level fixes.
- Contribute to reliability syncs to align on incident themes and critical-flow risks.
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