Senior Platform Engineer
At a glance
Senior Platform & Infrastructure role at Burq, Inc. Remote, Canada · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate CA$121,500–CA$147,500 across Canada.
Burq, Inc. has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Separate AWS production, staging and development accounts, then lead the Aurora production database move with advisor support
- Run ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS and ALB services, and manage infrastructure through Terraform
- Tighten IAM and S3 access, activate AWS Config and Security Hub, and maintain SOC 2 Type 2 readiness
- Improve GitHub Actions pipelines, create pull-request test environments and build Docker Compose-based local development
- Monitor service health in CloudWatch, turn incident reviews into runbooks and share platform work with product teams
What you bring
- At least five years in engineering, including three or more focused on platform or infrastructure work
- Strong AWS skills across ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda and account design
- Terraform experience, plus a track record with GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines and environment management
- You can strengthen security without adding friction for product engineers, and have used CloudWatch, Datadog or similar observability tools
Who this fits
This is a senior, hands-on role for someone ready to establish the platform function and own its infrastructure roadmap. The role is remote in Canada.
From the employer
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of Burq's Platform team — the function that owns our engineering foundations: infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability.
Right now, our infrastructure runs on AWS with a combination of ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and Step Functions. We have a strong contractor advising us, but we need a full-time engineer who can own this domain, execute on a significant infrastructure roadmap, and make every product team faster as a result.
This is a high-leverage, high-ownership role. You will be designing and building the platform that Burq scales on for the next several years.
Infrastructure
- Own and execute the AWS account split — separating production, staging, and development into clean isolated environments
- Lead the Aurora DB production migration with support from our infrastructure advisor
- Manage and evolve our ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configuration
- Own Terraform — infrastructure as code, not click-ops
Security & Access
- Harden IAM — developer permission sets, production access controls, least-privilege enforcement
- Audit and lock down public S3 buckets
- Enable AWS Config and Security Hub across all accounts
- Own SOC 2 Type 2 readiness maintenance in partnership with Sprinto
- Coordinate external penetration test cadence
CI/CD & Developer Experience
- Own and improve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines — build times, test reliability, deployment velocity
- Build out PR stack environments so product teams can test independently
- Drive the local development stack initiative — Docker Compose-based environments that replace shared preprod
- Integrate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipeline
Observability & Reliability
- Own CloudWatch dashboards spanning ALB, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and target group health
- Lead post-incident reviews and ensure every incident produces a runbook entry
- Partner with product teams to distribute platform work as a standing sprint allocation — not a separate queue
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering
- Deep AWS expertise — ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architecture
- Terraform proficiency — you write infrastructure as code and know why it matters
- Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment management
- Security-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers
- Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent
Benefits
Why You’ll Love Working Here
Investing in you 🙏
- Competitive salary
- Medical coverage
- Access to educational resources and courses
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