Staff Platform Engineer — Shakepay (Bitcoin/Fintech, Canada)

Company: Shakepay

About the Company: Shakepay is a Canadian Bitcoin-focused fintech company on a mission to bring Bitcoin to all Canadians. One sat at a time. Growing rapidly, mission-driven, and backed by a team passionate about Bitcoin and financial freedom.

Job Category: Platform Engineering / DevOps / AI Infrastructure / Bitcoin / Fintech

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Remote — Canada only

Salary: CAD $210,000+ base (pay can increase quickly for those who make big impact; exceptional candidates considered above the posted range)

Application Link: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/shakepay/jobs/4673005005

Job Description: You'll lead the development of internal tooling, automation, and AI-powered workflows that dramatically improve developer productivity at Shakepay — while also building and evolving the observability, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps practices the entire engineering team depends on.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead 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 Shakepay's production environment
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to drive best practices in system design
• Contribute to incident response and drive operational resilience improvements

Skills Required: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, ArgoCD, Helm, Datadog, AI/LLM workflow building, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, developer platform design.

Requirements:

• Strong platform engineering background with experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure
• Experience with AI/LLMs to automate tasks or augment developer productivity
• Fintech or regulated environment infrastructure experience preferred
• Must be based in Canada; fluency in English required

Benefits: Competitive compensation (CAD $210,000+ base), parental leave top-up to 100% salary for 18 weeks, quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsites, meaningful equity opportunity, mission-driven work on Bitcoin infrastructure.