Backend Platform Engineer

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $136.7k - $182.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Spin Master

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

📣 Marketing

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Post-IPO Secondary on 2022-11

Marketing • Manufacturing • Entertainment

Spin Master is a global entertainment company that reimagines play through its innovative toys, games, entertainment content, and digital games. The company is well-known for its creativity and passion, offering engaging experiences such as the PAW Patrol franchise and Hatchimals Alive series. Spin Master is recognized in the industry with multiple Toy of the Year nominations, highlighting its continued influence in creating magical play experiences for children and families. The company also collaborates with celebrities and offers digital play through cutting-edge apps, making it a leader in the toy and game sector.

📋 Description

• Own the API and job queues that every sticker request runs through • Maintain and improve the real-time connection layer for devices, partnering with the firmware engineer • Tune and extend autoscaling for holiday spikes and a growing device fleet, partnering with the ML Serving engineer on GPU inference • Mature observability through metrics, logs, tracing, and alerts • Build cost instrumentation for requests, models, and services • Own release engineering for server-side services, including safe deploys, database migrations, and fast rollback • Partner with the Trust & Safety engineer on abuse prevention, device security, and privacy for a kids' product • Share on-call responsibilities and improve the rotation over time • Harden, scale, and establish standards for backend foundations as the team grows

🎯 Requirements

• Depth in Python and PostgreSQL • Elixir experience, or real interest in learning it • Experience owning production infrastructure end to end • Experience scaling a queue-driven or real-time system through an order of magnitude of traffic growth • Comfortable being paged for systems you own • Ability to work on systems that are fast, safe for kids, and affordable at scale

🏖️ Benefits

• Growth and Career Opportunities • Flexible Work Hours • Innovation, Collaboration and Fun • Comprehensive Benefits • Other fun Perks! • Reasonable accommodation throughout the hiring process • Opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers

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