Principal Cloud Engineer AWS/Multiple
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Shakepay·6 months ago
At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the bitcoin golden age. We’re reimagining financial services to give every Canadian their fair shake.
Our culture is built around doing work that matters, winning as a team, and celebrating success. If you're the kind of person who values growth, shipping fast, and sharing your ideas openly with a group of like-minded people, come and build with us!
About Shakepay
Since 2015, we’ve been building the Shakepay app to make buying and earning bitcoin fast, easy, and secure. In 2022, we launched the Shakepay Card, allowing shakers to earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. Today, more than 1.5 million Canadians use Shakepay to grow their bitcoin savings and take control of their financial future.
We’re regulated across all Canadian provinces and territories, and backed by renowned venture capitalists with a funding of $44M. We have a passionate, loyal, and growing community, and we’re looking for people who want to help us build something truly special.
The Platform team empowers other engineering teams at Shakepay by providing the tools, infrastructure, and best practices they need to be autonomous, productive, and reliable. As the Platform Engineering Manager, you’ll ensure we balance fast delivery with operational excellence.
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team of platform engineers with a focus on Infrastructure, SRE and DevOps .
This role is responsible for people leadership, technical direction, and delivery across platform initiatives that impact every engineering team at Shakepay. You’ll partner closely with Engineers, Engineering leaders, Security, and Compliance, and lead by example, staying hands-on where it matters to shape technical decisions, support delivery, and ensure our platform evolves in step with both developer and business needs. You’ll also play a key role in developing an agentic layer of the platform, building intelligent tooling and agentic workflows that automate repetitive work, assist engineers in complex tasks, and enable teams across the company to interact with systems and data in new ways
You don’t need to be the deepest expert in every area, but you must be technically strong enough to set direction, challenge assumptions, and make tradeoffs across DevEx, infrastructure, and reliability.
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The base salary range for this position is $209,000-$253,000 CAD. Base pay may vary based on factors such as years of experience, skills and qualifications. Additionally, employees are eligible for equity, pay increases based on performance, benefits including health and dental care, and paid time off.
We understand that potential can be just as valuable as experience. If you're eager to learn, grow, and contribute to the mission but worry that you may not have the “right” experience, we still want you to apply.
We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background and life experience. We’re firm believers that a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept.
Fluency in English is required due to the percentage of English-speaking customers and the nature of our platform, which is available to all Canadians.
We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support certain parts of our hiring process. This can include tools that assist with scheduling, application review, candidate communications, and generating interview notes, guides, or summaries so our team can stay focused on the conversation. All hiring decisions are made by our hiring team.