Engineering Manager, Platform

Shakepay

Engineering Manager leading platform engineers focused on Infrastructure and DevOps at Shakepay. Driving technical direction, team growth, and operational excellence in a remote setting.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorLead💰 CA$209,000 - CA$253,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudKubernetesPostgresTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers across Infrastructure, DevOps and Developer Experience.
Set technical direction for platform architecture and ensure roadmap execution
Balance short-term delivery with long-term investments in tooling, infrastructure, and reliability
Oversee cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational tooling in a regulated environment
Design and build AI-powered internal tools and agentic workflows that automate tasks and augment engineering productivity
Improve developer productivity by reducing friction in onboarding, CI/CD, and local-to-prod workflows
Ensure systems are secure, scalable, observable, and resilient as Shakepay grows
Own incident management practices, postmortems, and sustainability of the on-call rotation
Collaborate closely with product engineering, security, and compliance stakeholders
Advocate for platform work by tying technical initiatives to business and customer impact

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps or SRE roles
3+ years managing and growing high-performing teams
Familiarity with technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, PostgreSQL, CI/CD tooling, and GitOps
Experience operating production systems and supporting on-call rotations
Ability to set technical direction across both developer experience and infrastructure
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a focus on business impact
Comfort using AI tools in your day-to-day workflow to accelerate development, debugging, and learning

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous AI token budget (currently unlimited)
Stock options as part of their total compensation
Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
Parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
Quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other

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Hard Skills & Tools

platform engineeringinfrastructureDevOpsSREAI-powered toolsKubernetesAWSTerraformArgoCDPostgreSQL

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingteam managementtechnical directionbusiness impact focusincident managementsustainability