Staff Platform Engineer

At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you're the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!About Shakepay Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning Bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, which allows shakers to earn Bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than one million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their Bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future.  We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories,​​ backed by renowned venture capitalists, and have $44M in funding. Our passionate, loyal, and growing community is looking for people who want to help us build something truly special. Join our small, high-impact team on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. About the Platform Team: 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. What you’ll do: 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 opera...