Staff Platform Engineer

About The Role

We’re hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer to join Manifest, a new product being built in a high-autonomy, fast-moving environment. This is a hands-on, staff-level role for someone who can own critical infrastructure, improve the developer experience, and partner closely with product engineers, DevOps leadership, and technical leads.

What You’ll Do

• Work on a team with two other platform engineers
• Own and evolve the infrastructure that supports Manifest, including AWS environments, networking, compute, data services, observability, CI/CD, and operational tooling
• Support and improve our containerized application platform, including deployment pipelines, rollback mechanisms, and runtime configuration
• Help operate and harden our data infrastructure, including connection pooling, backups, disaster recovery, replication, and safe schema-change practices
• Help ensure the platform is secure, cost-conscious, and maintainable as the product scales
• Mentor engineers on infrastructure, operations, reliability, and production ownership

What We’re Looking For

• Deep production experience with AWS, especially services such as ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, VPC networking, load balancing, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudFront, WAF, and related managed services
• Treats reliability, scalability, performance, and observability as a first-class design constraint, building these into designs from the start rather than bolting them on later
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience. Pulumi with TypeScript is ideal, but deep experience with Terraform or another mature IaC approach is also valuable
• Strong operational knowledge of PostgreSQL, including performance investigation, connection pooling, backups, replication, locking, migrations, and safe schema-change patterns
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD systems, ideally with GitHub Actions, OIDC-based cloud authentication, container builds, environment promotion, required checks, and deployment gates
• Experience supporting containerized production workloads and improving deployment safety, rollback strategies, and runtime reliability
• Strong observability and incident response experience, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and post-incident learning
• The ability to work effectively in ambiguity, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and communicate clearly with both infrastructure specialists and product engineers
• A track record of raising the engineering bar through reusable patterns, documentation, automation, mentoring, and thoughtful technical leadership

Our Environment

Manifest operates with a lean process and a high degree of ownership. Engineers are expected to work effectively in ambiguity, clarify requirements, collaborate directly across functions, and ship pragmatic, high-quality solutions. The DevOps function is critical to that operating model. Resilient, well-planned infrastructure is critical, but we also do not want speed to come at the expense of reliability, security, or maintainability. This role exists to help Manifest find that balance as the product moves toward launch and scale. You’ll work closely with product engineers, technical leads, DevOps leadership, and other stakeholders to ensure the platform is ready for real customers, real traffic, and real operational demands.

Why Join

This is an opportunity to help shape the foundation for a new product at an important stage. You’ll be joining early enough to have real influence over how Manifest operates, deploys, scales, and responds to incidents. You’ll work on meaningful infrastructure problems, partner with a highly autonomous engineering team, and help define the standards that will carry the product into production and beyond.

Pay

The expected salary range for this position is CAD $145,000-$195,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications.