Manager, Engineering – Platform Engineering

Wavelo

Manager of Engineering Operations leading technical team and standardizing architecture for telecom platform. Focused on enhancing developer experience and defining engineering standards.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$140,000 - CA$160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoKafkaKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with engineering leadership to evolve and standardize the foundational architecture for a cloud-native, event-driven telecom platform — identifying areas for improvement and driving safe, incremental modernization alongside active development
Own developer experience: build tooling, CI pipeline performance, dependency management, and inner-source contribution models across a shared monorepo
Govern shared UI component standards and design system practices used across teams
Establish and maintain engineering standards: RFCs, ADRs, architecture reviews
Partner closely with Operations and SRE to define observability standards (tracing, logging, metrics), SLO/SLI frameworks, and reliability practices
Champion AI-first development practices across tooling, workflows, and culture
Manage and develop a small, established team of senior engineers

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of backend engineering experience, with hands-on proficiency in Golang or similar languages
Deep experience with event-driven and async architectures — Kafka, NATS, or comparable systems
Background in platform or infrastructure engineering: you've built shared internal platforms, not just product features
Experience defining engineering standards at an org level — RFCs, ADRs, or architecture review processes
Strong DevOps sensibility: CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure
Experience managing or mentoring engineers, with a bias toward growing people through the work
Comfortable working with ambiguity and incomplete requirements.

Benefits

Comp & perks

generous benefits
fair compensation

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Hard Skills & Tools

Backend EngineeringEvent-Driven ArchitectureAsynchronous ArchitectureEngineering Standards DefinitionDevOps Practices

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationAdaptability