Senior Platform Engineer

About Wagepoint: Wagepoint is a premier, small-but-mighty financial technology innovator and simple online payroll application on an intensive mission to make employee compensation pipelines straightforward and delightful for over 30,000 small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers across North America. Since 2012, Wagepoint has taken care of the complex, high-stakes backend operations—including detailed wage calculations, automated local currency distributions, and multi-tier tax reporting frameworks—ensuring business operators avoid dire compliance consequences. Operating with a collaborative, remote-first team of over 175 professionals, Wagepoint combines robust security guardrails with a refreshingly human, supportive culture.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly sophisticated, systems-minded Senior Platform Engineer to join our core Platform Engineering division in a full-time remote capacity within Canada. In this technical leadership seat, you will claim direct, hands-on ownership over evolving our infrastructure maturity, driving reliability, system scaling parameters, and secure access configurations across a rapidly expanding SaaS product ecosystem. Moving past simple environment maintenance, you will spearhead the architecture of our production-grade cloud environments, establishing declarative deployment patterns to shift teams from reactive firefighting to proactive system design. This role demands a seasoned DevOps or SRE specialist who excels at making complex infrastructure simple, repeatable, and completely resilient against downtime failures.

Key Responsibilities

• Azure Architecture Evolution: Design, establish, and optimize our primary Microsoft Azure cloud architectures while strategically supporting and refactoring our legacy AWS infrastructure footprint.
• Production Kubernetes Orchestration: Assume full production ownership of Kubernetes (AKS) clusters, managing complex multi-environment configurations, software upgrades, horizontal scaling, ingress layers, and secure secret management tools.
• Declarative Automation Coding: Author, standardize, and maintain modular, reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) architectures natively using Terraform across parallel cloud environments.
• GitOps CI/CD Delivery Rails: Build and optimize highly secure, reliable continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines for infrastructure layers, containerized workloads, serverless scripts, and database migrations via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Cloud Networking & Segmentation: Engineer robust cloud networking layouts, configuring virtual network (VNet) routing properties, micro-segmentation perimeters, private endpoint pathways, and secure traffic flows.
• Developer Enablement & Productivity: Reduce friction for feature developer squads by delivering automated configuration templates, self-service infrastructure portals, and structured runbook documentation.
• Distributed Observability Telemetry: Construct integrated platform monitoring, logging, and application tracing structures leveraging Azure-native monitoring tools and OpenTelemetry standards to establish actionable alerting matrices.
• Access Control & Audit Governance: Enforce secure identity access patterns, including role-based access control (RBAC), managed service identities, and database security controls to preserve SOC audit readiness.
• Incident Response Leadership: Participate in an engineering on-call rotation, leading rapid production troubleshooting efforts and executing root cause and causal analysis loops for technical remediation.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 6+ years of verified professional history running cloud infrastructure engineering, DevOps pipeline automation, site reliability engineering (SRE), or cloud architecture.
• 2+ years of direct, hands-on operational history configuring, scaling, and maintaining live production systems natively within Microsoft Azure (compute, storage, and networking layers).
• Expert-tier technical proficiency with containerization technologies, with a strong background managing and tuning production clusters via Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm .
• Advanced operational command using Terraform for declarative, multi-tier infrastructure provisioning and state management.
• Demonstrated background designing end-to-end continuous integration pipelines coupled with practical mastery of GitOps deployment workflows inside Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• Strong programming and scripting literacy, showcasing high proficiency in at least one systems automation language such as Python or Bash .
• Familiarity with production relational database management, covering database access security, performance tuning, and automated backups.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication mechanics, with a proven history of collaborating cross-functionally across multi-disciplinary engineering cells.
• Location Context: Full-time remote-first operational parameters open exclusively to qualified platform engineers based permanently anywhere within Canada .

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Prior professional experience operating within a regulated fintech, automated payroll processing, banking, or enterprise SaaS product environment.
• Possession of industry-recognized cloud architecture or engineering badges, specifically professional Azure or AWS infrastructure certifications.
• Hands-on background implementing DevSecOps principles, automated code scanning, or advanced microservices architectural patterns.

What We Offer

• Equitable Annual Compensation Matrix: An attractive, experience-calibrated salary range of $100,000 – $140,000 CAD per year , engineered transparently to evaluate your technical background, domain skillset, and system knowledge.
• The exceptional professional canvas to directly direct infrastructure decisions, eliminate technical debt, and build the platform foundation backing thousands of small businesses.
• Profound work-from-home remote parameters providing a permanent work-from-home framework, complete geographic freedom inside Canada, and zero office commute burdens.
• Access to robust paths for continuous professional development and career advancement within an innovative environment that aggressively encourages new creative ideas.
• Integration into an internationally acclaimed, friendly corporate culture that pairs tough technical challenges with an endless amount of laughter and great life balance.