• The Platform team empowers engineering teams and other functions at Shakepay by providing the tools, infrastructure, and best practices they need to be autonomous, productive, and reliable
• As a Staff Platform Engineer, your mission is to shape and evolve the internal platform that powers engineering across Shakepay. You’ll operate at a company-wide level, designing foundational systems and platform capabilities that enable teams to build, ship, and operate software quickly and reliably
• You’ll play a key role in defining the architecture and long-term direction of our developer platform - improving engineering velocity, reliability, and operational excellence across the organization
• This includes helping build an agentic layer of the platform, developing intelligent tooling and workflows that automate repetitive work, assist engineers in complex tasks, and enable teams across the company to interact with systems and data in new ways
• You’ll work closely with engineering leadership and product teams to ensure our platform scales with Shakepay’s growth and continues to enable teams to ship with confidence
• Define and evolve the architecture of Shakepay’s internal developer platform
• Design and build foundational infrastructure that supports our growing systems and teams
• Lead the development of internal tooling and automation that significantly improves developer productivity
• Architect and implement infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across the platform
• Build and evolve observability systems including monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
• Design and implement AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate operational and development tasks
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance across our production environment
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to drive best practices in system design and operations
• Lead technical initiatives that span multiple engineering teams
• Mentor engineers and guide technical decision-making through design reviews and architecture discussions
• Influence the long-term technical direction of our infrastructure and platform ecosystem
• Contribute to incident response and drive improvements to operational resilience

Benefits

• Equity benefits: We believe everyone at Shakepay should benefit from building a generational company, so every shaker owns stock options
• Get paid in bitcoin: You can choose to take a percentage of your salary in bitcoin. Whether you opt for some or none, the choice to be paid in the hardest, soundest money the world has ever known is yours
• Remote friendly: With a flexible schedule, you can work on your own time, from home or anywhere. And if you’re close by, you’re welcome to work in our Montreal or Toronto offices whenever you want. Being a remote-first company is awesome, but there’s value in spending time with your teammates and deepening these bonds. So, each shaker is entitled to 15 days of travel and accommodation to any Canadian city each year, covered by Shakepay
• Generous vacation: Time off is essential, and we highly encourage it. We trust you to take as much as you need, when you need it. Every team member is expected to take at least 20 days of vacation each year. To help make sure you do, after taking 20 days, shakers receive a $1,000 bonus to put towards their next vacation
• Insurance coverage: We offer health, dental, paramedical, disability, life, and travel coverage so you’re always at your best. On top of our insurance coverage, all shakers also get access to a health and wellness spending account
• Personal development: It’s a marathon, not a sprint. We’re here to help you define and hit your personal career goals so that you can get where you want to be. To support our team, every shaker gets a $2,000 yearly budget to spend on learning and development
• Working from home: Working from home should be comfortable. Every shaker gets $1,200 to spruce up their home office and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses
• Self-sovereignty: The path to self-sovereignty means being in full control of your coins. We offer a budget for shakers to get a self-hosted wallet and to build a self-hosted node- Experience designing internal platforms or developer tooling used by multiple teams
• Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment systems
• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Strong programming experience (e.g., Go, Python, JavaScript, or similar)
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across teams
• A pragmatic mindset focused on solving real business problems
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Strong system design and architectural thinking
• Experience improving developer experience and engineering velocity through platform improvements
• Experience building tools or workflows that leverage AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
• We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you’re eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the “right” experience, we still want you to apply
• Experience designing internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure
• Familiarity with Bitcoin and curiosity to learn more
• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, ArgoCD, Helm, or Datadog
• A folder of SafeForWork reaction memes
• Experience supporting high-scale production systems
• Experience building infrastructure in fintech or other regulated environments