Staff Platform Engineer

🕒 August 14

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $104k - $143k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Robots & Pencils

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2022-04

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm that specializes in developing digital strategies and products utilizing mobile, web, and frontier technologies to drive transformation for businesses. They focus on areas such as mobile development, product design, UX research, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and organizational change management. With a commitment to blending creativity with technology, they aim to unlock data insights and enhance product innovation, ultimately delivering excellent customer experiences and helping brands gain a competitive edge.

📋 Description

• Define DevOps strategy and lead infrastructure architecture across multi-environment, multi-region cloud systems • Architect and own scalable Kubernetes platforms and containerized infrastructure at scale • Own infrastructure as code strategy and standards across environments • Lead DevSecOps implementation including secrets management, compliance, auditing, IAM, and zero-trust networking • Drive platform reliability, performance SLAs, and cost optimization across production systems • Lead complex cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives • Own observability strategy and production reliability practices • Lead AI/ML platform infrastructure design and operation, including model serving and deployment, GPU workload orchestration, LLM gateway and observability, vector store infrastructure, and CI/CD for AI/ML systems • Use AI-forward tools such as Claude, Cursor, and other modern AI assistants in daily work • Partner with engineering, product, and leadership to align platform strategy with business and delivery goals • Communicate complex infrastructure decisions and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Lead design reviews, architecture discussions, and release readiness assessments • Establish platform engineering standards and best practices • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers • Act as a technical escalation point for complex infrastructure and platform challenges • Evaluate emerging tools and technologies to improve platform reliability and developer experience

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional DevOps or platform engineering experience, with experience leading complex platform initiatives • Expert scripting and programming skills, including Python, Go, Java, or Bash • Deep cloud expertise across at least one major platform • Expert Kubernetes and container orchestration skills • Expert infrastructure as code skills across multiple tools • Strong CI/CD architecture experience at scale • Strong DevSecOps experience including secrets management, compliance, and auditing • Experience with networking, IAM, security architecture, and zero-trust principles in cloud environments • Experience with service mesh, distributed systems, and microservices architecture • Strong experience with AI/ML platform infrastructure, including model serving and deployment, GPU workload orchestration, LLM gateway and observability, vector store infrastructure, and CI/CD for AI/ML systems • Demonstrated leadership and technical mentoring experience across a team or organization • Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to translate technical depth across audiences • Demonstrable, day-to-day usage and expert knowledge of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguous technical and business challenges with sound judgment • Cloud certifications or FinOps experience is a plus • Experience designing and provisioning HPC cluster infrastructure using CI/CD pipelines across AWS, CoreWeave, GCP, and OCI • Experience with HPC job schedulers and workload managers such as Slurm or equivalent

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • RRSP Plan for eligible employees