Staff Software Developer, Production Engineering in Canada Creek, Nova Scotia at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Developer, Production Engineering based in Canada.

This is a high-impact engineering leadership role focused on improving the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of a large-scale technology platform serving millions of users. Working at the intersection of platform and product engineering, you will tackle complex infrastructure challenges and help establish engineering practices that elevate system resilience across the organization. The role combines hands-on technical problem-solving with strategic influence, allowing you to drive initiatives that prevent incidents, improve system performance, and accelerate safe software delivery. You will collaborate with diverse engineering teams, guide reliability best practices, and build solutions that create lasting improvements across multiple services. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior technologist who enjoys solving systemic challenges, influencing technical direction, and shaping the future of production engineering in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.

• Design and implement platform-level reliability improvements, including guardrails, engineering standards, and best practices that reduce service failures and operational risk.
• Develop and enhance tools that improve incident detection, response, mitigation, and recovery, including support for AI-assisted operational workflows.
• Lead investigations into performance, scalability, and load-testing outcomes, transforming findings into measurable reliability improvements across critical systems.
• Partner with platform and product engineering teams to review architectures, assess production readiness, and promote resilient engineering practices.
• Identify recurring operational issues and design long-term solutions that eliminate root causes rather than addressing individual incidents.
• Influence engineering teams through technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration, driving adoption of reliability-focused standards across the organization.
• Contribute to reliability planning, risk assessment discussions, and cross-functional initiatives aimed at improving uptime and user experience.
• Support continuous improvement efforts by helping define operational metrics, incident prevention strategies, and engineering excellence initiatives.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial exposure to platform engineering, infrastructure, site reliability engineering (SRE), or related disciplines.
• Proven track record of improving reliability at scale through operational standards, automation, incident reduction initiatives, or platform-wide engineering improvements.
• Strong expertise in backend systems, distributed architectures, and diagnosing complex production issues across interconnected services.
• Experience conducting load testing, performance analysis, capacity planning, and translating technical findings into actionable engineering solutions.
• Deep understanding of modern cloud-native technologies and deployment ecosystems, including Kubernetes, Helm, Argo, and related tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and drive adoption of best practices across teams without direct managerial authority.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present recommendations to both technical and senior leadership audiences.
• Systems-thinking mindset with a focus on root-cause analysis, long-term problem prevention, and scalable engineering solutions.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, balancing competing priorities, and driving outcomes in a fast-moving environment.
• Interest in emerging technologies, including AI-assisted engineering and operational tooling, is considered a strong advantage.

• Comprehensive health, medical, and life insurance coverage.
• Employer-matched long-term savings and retirement programs.
• 20 days of annual vacation plus additional wellness days.
• Unlimited sick leave and mental health days.
• Flexible remote work environment across Canada.
• Opportunity to work internationally for up to 90 days per year.
• Access to employee resource groups and inclusive community initiatives.
• Collaborative culture focused on innovation, learning, and professional growth.
• Exposure to large-scale systems, cutting-edge technologies, and high-impact engineering challenges.
• Opportunity to work alongside highly skilled and motivated technology professionals across North America.