Hybrid Senior Platform Engineer

at Rootly

• Job title: Senior Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Senior Platform Engineer at Rootly building infrastructure for incident management and enhancing system reliability. Collaborate with product teams to drive performance and scalability of services in a high-impact environment.

Responsibilities

• Embed with product teams to enhance observability, reliability, and performance of their services.
• Own our CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, monitoring systems, and incident response processes.
• Build tools and automation to eliminate manual toil, improve engineering velocity and developer experience, and improve system reliability.
• Collaborate deeply across engineering to understand systems at the code level and surface cross-cutting reliability, performance, and scaling concerns early.
• Architect and scale our infrastructure, ensuring best-in-class performance, availability, and operational excellence.
• Drive capacity planning efforts to ensure our infrastructure is resilient and scalable as we grow.
• Define and manage SLOs and error budgets in partnership with Engineering teams who own production services.
• Act as a strong voice for reliability, performance, and scalability across the engineering organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in an SRE, Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• 5+ years of experience writing software in a production environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and reliability practices.
• Strong understanding of observability, performance tuning, and scaling strategies.
• Deep familiarity with incident response, monitoring, and CI/CD systems.
• Hands-on experience supporting web or RPC services at meaningful scale.
• You write code to solve infrastructure problems—not shell scripts alone, but production-grade software.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and early equity in a fast-growing, venture-backed company.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 3 weeks of vacation, plus unlimited sick and mental health days, and a company-wide end-of-year shutdown to recharge.
• $500 stipend for home office setup.
• A fast-moving, high-impact environment where your leadership and ideas directly shape the future of the company.