Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

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Based in CanadaFull-TimeSenior

SalaryCompetitive annual salary: $250,000–$325,000. Potential compensation flexibility up to $500,000 for exceptional candidates, depending on experience and role scope.

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Job Details

Languages: Excellent communication skills in English
Experience: 6–12 years of professional software engineering experience
Required Skills: Backend DevelopmentDockerKubernetesLinuxTerraformDistributed Systems

Requirements

Have 6–12 years of professional software engineering experience, particularly in backend development and core infrastructure engineering.
Have built or contributed to core infrastructure within an AI-native Series A–C startup; this is an essential requirement.
Be hands-on with production application development, with a backend focus rather than a traditional DevOps or SRE profile.
Have owned infrastructure components such as virtual machines, queues, containers, and persistent cloud environments.
Have strong backend engineering skills and the ability to design, implement, deploy, and maintain production systems independently.
Have expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Pulumi, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
Have practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable container orchestration technologies.
Have deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Understand Linux systems, networking, persistent storage, permissions, and runtime debugging.
Have experience designing distributed systems, asynchronous processing, background tasks, messaging queues, and reliable service architectures.
Have experience designing APIs, backend services, and reusable abstractions for other engineering teams.
Have a strong understanding of scalability, infrastructure reliability, performance optimization, and production system operations.
Have excellent communication skills in English and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain application code for persistent, always-on cloud environments for individual customers.
Own the lifecycle management of virtual machines, container updates, background jobs, queues, observability, and security mechanisms.
Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and infrastructure abstractions for product engineers.
Design and implement distributed systems, including messaging queues, distributed locks, background tasks, and service bus mechanisms.
Scale infrastructure from hundreds of customer environments to several thousand while maintaining availability, performance, and reliability.
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code patterns and reusable provisioning standards using Pulumi or comparable technologies.
Work with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Linux, networking, storage, and permissions.
Diagnose technical issues across application and infrastructure layers and implement long-term improvements.
Establish monitoring, observability, and security practices across customer environments.
Own technical initiatives from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and production debugging.

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