# Senior Platform Engineer

> Burq, Inc. · Canada (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-20

**Workplace:** remote

**Department:** Engineering

## Description

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to be the founding member of Burq's Platform team — the function that owns our engineering foundations: infrastructure, security, CI/CD, and reliability.

Right now, our infrastructure runs on AWS with a combination of ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and Step Functions. We have a strong contractor advising us, but we need a full-time engineer who can own this domain, execute on a significant infrastructure roadmap, and make every product team faster as a result.

This is a high-leverage, high-ownership role. You will be designing and building the platform that Burq scales on for the next several years.

### Infrastructure

-   Own and execute the AWS account split — separating production, staging, and development into clean isolated environments
-   Lead the Aurora DB production migration with support from our infrastructure advisor
-   Manage and evolve our ECS Fargate services, RDS clusters, ElastiCache, SQS queues, and ALB configuration
-   Own Terraform — infrastructure as code, not click-ops

### Security & Access

-   Harden IAM — developer permission sets, production access controls, least-privilege enforcement
-   Audit and lock down public S3 buckets
-   Enable AWS Config and Security Hub across all accounts
-   Own SOC 2 Type 2 readiness maintenance in partnership with Sprinto
-   Coordinate external penetration test cadence

### CI/CD & Developer Experience

-   Own and improve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines — build times, test reliability, deployment velocity
-   Build out PR stack environments so product teams can test independently
-   Drive the local development stack initiative — Docker Compose-based environments that replace shared preprod
-   Integrate AI-assisted testing into the CI pipeline

### Observability & Reliability

-   Own CloudWatch dashboards spanning ALB, ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, and target group health
-   Lead post-incident reviews and ensure every incident produces a runbook entry
-   Partner with product teams to distribute platform work as a standing sprint allocation — not a separate queue

## Requirements

-   5+ years of engineering experience with 3+ years focused on infrastructure and platform engineering
-   Deep AWS expertise — ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, Lambda, account architecture
-   Terraform proficiency — you write infrastructure as code and know why it matters
-   Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines, environment management
-   Security-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers
-   Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent

## Benefits

### Why You’ll Love Working Here

Investing in you 🙏

-   Competitive salary
-   Medical coverage
-   Access to educational resources and courses

## Apply

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