
Principal Platform Engineer
MealSuite
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$117,000 - CA$165,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead and evolve our internal developer platform (IDP), extending platform capabilities while improving reliability, scalability, and security.
- Design and implement scalable infrastructure patterns that support global product growth and long-term architectural strategy.
- Automate testing, deployment, and configuration management using modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to reduce operational toil.
- Strengthen observability across the stack (infrastructure, OS, networking, APM) and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational runbooks.
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure meets application performance, load, and resiliency requirements.
- Troubleshoot complex production performance and availability issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventative improvements.
- Mentor and coach engineers, championing best practices in automation, operational excellence, and technical decision-making.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or similar roles with increasing technical ownership.
- 3–5 years of technical leadership experience in a senior or principal-level capacity.
- Deep experience managing cloud-based service deployments focused on resilience, performance, and secure configuration.
- Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), deployment automation, and CI/CD practices.
- Broad observability knowledge spanning infrastructure, operating systems, networking, and application performance monitoring.
- Strong experience engineering and supporting database and messaging platforms.
- Linux configuration, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting expertise.
- Demonstrated ability to influence architecture decisions and mentor engineers across teams.
- Experience with VMware vSphere host management (nice to have).
- AWS certification (nice to have).
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (nice to have).
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off – We trust our employees to build their own version of balance so they can feel rejuvenated and bring their best every day.
- Retirement savings support – 401(k)/RRSP matching at 100% up to 3%, because long-term security matters.
- Comprehensive health benefits – Day one medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance, plus paid maternity and parental leave.
- Hybrid flexibility – We value in-person collaboration and mentorship while recognizing the benefits of remote work.
- Strong culture of wellbeing – More than 90% of employees agree their leader supports their wellbeing.
- Equity participation – Share in MealSuite’s success as we continue to grow.
- Career development opportunities – We actively support professional growth and advancement.
- Purpose-driven work – Over 90% of North American employees say our company purpose aligns with their personal values.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Infrastructure as Codedeployment automationCI/CD practicesobservabilityLinux configurationperformance tuningproduction troubleshootingcloud-based service deploymentsdatabase platformsmessaging platforms
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringinfluencing architecture decisionschampioning best practicescollaboration
Certifications
AWS certification