Posted 18 days ago
Senior Platform Engineer
@ Burq, Inc.
Remote in Canada
Overview
Burq, Inc. is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer as the founding member of its Platform team, owning infrastructure, security, CI/CD and reliability on AWS. The role covers the AWS account split, the Aurora DB production migration, IAM hardening, SOC 2 Type 2 readiness and observability. It is a full-time role with a competitive salary and medical coverage.
Responsibilities:
- Own AWS account architecture and the Aurora production migration
- Manage ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS and ALB infrastructure through Terraform
- Harden IAM, audit S3 buckets and maintain SOC 2 Type 2 readiness
- Own GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and PR stack environments
- Build CloudWatch dashboards and lead post-incident reviews
Requirements summary:
- 5+ years of engineering experience, 3+ in infrastructure or platform roles
- Deep AWS expertise across ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch and SQS
- Terraform proficiency and infrastructure-as-code practice
- Strong CI/CD background with GitHub Actions
- Security-minded with observability experience (CloudWatch, Datadog)
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-19
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-20
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-20
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | IT |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
Summary and details written by AI from the posting; the employer’s posting is the authority.
Burq, Inc.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 7 |
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
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- Competitive salary
- Medical coverage
- Access to educational resources and courses
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