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Platform Engineering Lead in Canada

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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From C$110K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join the Auth0 Security Engineering organization. You'll help build and maintain the security guardrails for our multi-cloud environment, implementing security and compliance standards as programmatic, code-driven policies. What You Will Do Cloud Security Controls: Implement and maintain organization-wide controls (SCPs, Azure Policy) balancing protection with developer experience. Identity & Access Management (IAM): Build and update templates and permission boundaries that govern how services and humans interact with our cloud, applying the principle of least privilege. Infrastructure & Network Security: Contribute to the security standards for VPC architecture, edge networking, and cross-account connectivity. System Design: Help build systems and processes that validate the security posture of the platform, enforcing our security policies and surfacing actionable feedback for engineering teams. Growth & Collaboration: Partner with teammates across the organization, share what you learn, and continually deepen your security expertise. What You Bring Cloud & Infrastructure Experience: 3+ years of experience in software engineering or information security, with hands-on exposure to cloud-native environments, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), and cloud security concepts. Policy & Automation: Experience building or maintaining automated controls and infrastructure-as-code, ideally within Terraform workflows

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📍 Washington, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join Okta's Universal Directory Platform team within the Product Platform Pillar. The team serves as the intelligent core of the enterprise security fabric, maintaining the source of truth for all identity assets and their associated relationships. Opportunity This position will be involved into development, design, and maintenance of our highly performant, reliable, and scalable platform, which is critical for managing user lifecycles, groups, and memberships. The successful candidate will possess experience in building and deploying scalable, reliable software and infrastructure within a cloud environment. What you’ll be doing Understand our identity management group codebase and development process: Jira, Technical Designs, Code Review, Testing, and Deployment. Develop and implement frameworks and toolings for our Universal Directory Service platform. Design and implement high-performance distributed scalable and fault-tolerant software components. Quickly deliver high-quality bug fixes and handle customer-reported issues. Conduct quality code reviews and automated testings. Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work. What you’ll bring to the role The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and prod

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📍 Montreal, Quebec, Canada· Full-time
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We take play seriously. We’re looking for curious adventurers ready to find their party, fueled by imagination and drive to build what’s never been built before. At Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, you’ll collaborate with passionate teams to reimagine our iconic brands and create experiences that spark joy, connection, and community through the magic of play. This is your chance to shape legendary play that lasts a lifetime. At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in! The cloud platform underpins how services are built, deployed, secured, and operated across the organization. As a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will define and drive the governance model and automation strategy for cloud infrastructure. This includes setting policy-as-code standards, automating compliance and cost controls, and ensuring infrastructure is provisioned and operated through consistent, auditable, self-service pathways rather than tailored or manual processes. You will operate at both a strategic and hands-on level and will set direction for how cloud resources are governed and automated while also building the tooling and guardrails that make that direction real. Success in this role means engineering teams can self-service the build and operation of infrastructure with confidence that it is secure, cost-aware, and consistent by default, without slowing delivery down. What you'll do Cloud Governance Define and enforce policy-as-code standards (tagging, naming, encryption, network segmentation, access boundaries) across cloud accounts/subscriptions Establish guardrails using tools such as OPA, Sentinel, AWS Config/Service Control Policies to report on and prevent drift from

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📍 Montreal, Quebec, Canada· Full-time
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We take play seriously. We’re looking for curious adventurers ready to find their party, fueled by imagination and drive to build what’s never been built before. At Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, you’ll collaborate with passionate teams to reimagine our iconic brands and create experiences that spark joy, connection, and community through the magic of play. This is your chance to shape legendary play that lasts a lifetime. Step Into the Multiverse: Your Next Adventure Starts Here At Wizards of the Coast, we harness the power of imagination and connection to create unforgettable experiences. We create entertainment that inspires creativity, sparks passion, forges friendships, and fosters communities around the globe. In every pursuit our mission is to inspire a lifetime love of games. Whether it's through the strategic depth of Magic: The Gathering®, the rich storytelling of Dungeons & Dragons®, or our AAA digital game studios, we build worlds that bring people together, spark creativity, and fuel adventure. As we continue to grow and explore new realms, we're seeking passionate, curious, and innovative minds to join the adventure. Do you have the versatility to operate at the intersection of game development, cloud infrastructure, and platform reliability? We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Central Technology Build Engineering team as we develop and curate an Unreal Engine ecosystem to share across our internal game studios. You will join a specialized team responsible for unblocking developers, ensuring build stability, and optimizing iteration workflows across multiple concurrent titles. This is a hands-on IC role where engineering excellence meets operational reliability. You’ll collaborate closely with game development teams to ensure a seamless experience for all Unreal-powered studios under our banner. In this role, you will design, build, and run scalable AWS architectures that serve as the backbone

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$146K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Role and Team Context The Senior Product Manager for the UI Platform is a high-impact individual contributor role, serving as a cornerstone for Okta's global user experience infrastructure. Joining the Product Platform group, you will own the foundational architecture that ensures every Okta product is elegant, scalable, and performant. Your role extends across owning the UI framework, design systems, localization/globalization frameworks, and accessibility (WCAG) standards, you provide the critical infrastructure that enables a cohesive, high-quality experience for Okta Workforce Identity products. Key Responsibilities Technical Product Vision : Define and champion the technical evolution of the Okta UI framework. Ensure the platform serves as a single source of truth for core administrative experiences across Okta products. Platform Roadmap Ownership : Prioritize and execute a complex roadmap across design systems, globalization, and accessibility. You will balance the needs of multiple product lines to ensure a unified developer and end-user experience. Strategic Cross-Functional Collaboration : Partner with global engineering, design, and research teams to deliver infrastructure that supports Okta’s massive scale. Ecosystem Synthesis : Engage with global customers and internal stakeholders to synthesize complex requirements into broad-value features that support a diverse, international ecosystem. Data-Driven Developer Experience : Leverage product data

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We're hiring a backend software engineer to work at the intersection of software engineering and robotics to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. If you have a passion for applying robotics solutions to a service loved by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We’re looking for Backend Engineers to work on both Product and Product Platform based teams in DoorDash Labs. Product focused Engineers work at the intersection of product and infrastructure to solve key business problems with elegant technical solutions. You'll operate our backend services and architecture that support all product functionality and will be challenged to consider the big picture -- collaborating cross-functionally, as well as evaluating and executing on trade-offs to maximize business impact for the company. You're excited about this opportunity because you will... Design and implement backend services for IoT that integrates with core DoorDash data, focused on reliability, and future extensibility Create a well documented APIs for other departments to integrate with Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems Introduce tools and best practices to accelerate our development process Design and implement backend services for autonomous delivery system that integrate with core DoorDash data. We're excited about you because you have... B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent 6+ years of industry experience as a software engineer Experience with backend for frontend architecture Ability to improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of multiple system resources Experience with service oriented architecture, writing REST API’s, unit testing, and architectural design Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST) Experience with SQL Experience with either Java or Kotlin Nice to Have Experience with

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📍 Montreal, Quebec, Canada· Full-time
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We take play seriously. We’re looking for curious adventurers ready to find their party, fueled by imagination and drive to build what’s never been built before. At Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, you’ll collaborate with passionate teams to reimagine our iconic brands and create experiences that spark joy, connection, and community through the magic of play. This is your chance to shape legendary play that lasts a lifetime. We’re building something new inside our AI Studio, and we’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer to help build it with us. This role sits at the center of a new platform that is being actively designed and shipped. The architecture is still taking shape, and the integration surface is constantly expanding. What excites us is the opportunity to build the infrastructure that makes never-before-imagined character experiences possible. We work where storytelling, imagination, and technology converge. Our focus is on building the core platform: the APIs, the admin tooling, the service integrations, and the delivery infrastructure that makes AI-powered character interactions real. This work connects what brand and creative teams envision with what audiences ultimately experience. This role is foundational to everything the platform does. Working closely with the Engineering Manager and Principal AI Engineer, this Full Stack Engineer will own significant portions of the system end to end — from the tooling that configures and versions character behavior to the API layer that external partners and products consume. Success here means shipping features that hold up under real-world conditions and integrating reliably with the AI services that bring characters to life. What You’ll Do Design and build features for our AI character platform. This includes: the admin tooling, as well as the API layer consumed by external integrations and par

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $1.6M/yr

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About the Team The Spark Platform team owns and operates DoorDash's Apache Spark ecosystem — the execution runtime, remote shuffle service, cluster scheduler, and reliability tooling that powers the company's data, analytics, and ML workloads. We run Spark across the company at significant scale and continue to expand the workloads, capabilities, and consumer base we serve. Orchestrating and operating thousands of Spark cluster deployments is a complex distributed system problem which the team invests heavily in runtime optimization, systems architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, and end-user tooling. About the Role As a Software Engineer on Spark Platform, you will execute across the surfaces of our in-house Spark deployment that serves the entire company. The work spans Spark runtime upgrades and performance, multi-tenant scheduling and executor bin-packing on Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle automation, and the observability and incident automation that keep the platform sustainable. You will move between layers as the work demands — picking up the next high-leverage problem regardless of where it sits — and partner closely with the rest of the team and with platform consumers across the company. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or New York City for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Spark Platform team. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Build and operate an in-house Spark platform that runs at company-wide scale, spanning runtime, scheduler, reliability, and user-facing tooling. Drive multi-tenant scheduling, executor bin-packing, and cost-aware placement that let a small team serve dozens of consumer teams. Own pieces of cluster lifecycle automation — provisioning, upgrades, capacity changes, and node-failure handling — at a scale where these stop being manual events. Build the observability and incident automation that make the platform debuggable end-to-end and keep on-call sus

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team The Spark Platform team owns and operates DoorDash's Apache Spark ecosystem — the execution runtime, remote shuffle service, cluster scheduler, and reliability tooling that powers the company's data, analytics, and ML workloads. We run Spark across the company at significant scale and continue to expand the workloads, capabilities, and consumer base we serve. Orchestrating and operating thousands of Spark cluster deployments is a complex distributed system problem which the team invests heavily in runtime optimization, systems architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, and end-user tooling. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on Spark Platform, you will set the technical direction for our in-house Spark deployment and shape the architecture that will run DoorDash's data, analytics, and ML compute for the next five years and beyond. You will own the deep, cross-cutting problems that span the runtime, the shuffle service, the scheduler, and the overall service reliability — making the architectural calls that compound across the platform's lifetime. You will partner with the Engineering Manager on technical roadmap, hiring, and team shape, and act as the senior technical voice in cross-team partnerships with Data Engineering, ML Platform, and product engineering teams that depend on the platform. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or New York City for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Spark Platform team. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Set the multi-year technical direction for an in-house Spark-on-Kubernetes platform — runtime, shuffle, scheduler, reliability — and make the architectural calls that compound for years. Own the deepest distributed-systems problems on the team: shuffle architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, runtime performance, and the failure modes that only show up at scale. Partner with the Engineering Manager on technical roadmap, hiring, inte

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -74%

From C$108K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. We are building and maintaining a highly scalable asynchronous platform that empowers our organization to handle critical business cases. As a software engineering team, our mission is to create robust and innovative solutions that drive the success of our business and deliver unparalleled value to our customers. We adopt Infrastructure as Code practice to automate the provisioning and configuration of our resources, which helps reduce manual configuration and improve consistency. Our team culture is built on collaboration, open communication, and a supportive environment where each member's ideas are valued and contributions are recognized. We believe in the importance of fostering a positive workplace culture that inspires innovation and creativity. Responsibilities: Maintain and analyze metrics from; operating systems; control planes; and applications to assist in fault detection and performance enhancement Design, develop and deploy tooling and systems that continually improve the reliability, scalability and efficiency of our platform Balance feature development speed and reliability with service-level objectives Operate and improve our Infrastructure using industry best practices and tools Participate in design and production readiness reviews, platform management and capacity planning ceremonies with cross-functional teams Document Infrastructure operations process and insights, identify repeatable actions and ruthlessly automate repetitive tasks Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams mitigate customer impacting events Experience: 5+ years experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering Experience building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks. Knowledge with SQS,

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -66.7%

Upwork Inc.'s (Nasdaq: UPWK) family of companies connects businesses with global, AI-enabled talent across every contingent work type including freelance, fractional, and payrolled. This portfolio includes the Upwork Marketplace, which connects businesses with on-demand access to highly skilled talent across the globe, and Lifted, which provides a purpose-built solution for enterprise organizations to source, contract, manage, and pay talent across the full spectrum of contingent work. From Fortune 100 enterprises to entrepreneurs, businesses rely on Upwork Inc. to find and hire expert talent, leverage AI-powered work solutions, and drive business transformation. With access to professionals spanning more than 10,000 skills across AI & machine learning, software development, sales & marketing, customer support, finance & accounting, and more, the Upwork family of companies enables businesses of all sizes to scale, innovate, and transform their workforces for the age of AI and beyond. Since its founding, Upwork Inc. has facilitated more than $30 billion in total transactions and services as it fulfills its purpose to create opportunity in every era of work. Learn more about the Upwork Marketplace at Upwork.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Facebook , Instagram , TikTok , and X ; and learn more about Lifted at Go-Lifted and follow on LinkedIn . Upwork's Match Platform team sits at the heart of how clients and freelancers find each other. As Senior Product Manager for Match Platform, you will own the shared infrastructure that powers matching, personalization, embeddings, and evaluation across multiple product surfaces. This is a high-leverage role: the models, features, and frameworks you build become the foundation that other product and ML teams build on. You will partner closely with engineering, data science, machine learning, analytics, and marketplace operations to reduce duplication, increase reuse of shared capabilities, and drive measurable improvem

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📍 San Mateo, Canada· Full-time
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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Engineering Acceleration team delivers a world-class development experience to our 2000+ Roblox teammates who write, build, and ship the most incredible virtual experience platform in the world. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for transforming development at Roblox from its solid roots to a fully scaled, globally mature, AI-powered development, code review and CI environment. If you are passionate about engineering productivity and you've ever wanted to define — not just build — the systems that fundamentally change how an entire engineering organization operates, this is your opportunity. <p class="font-claude-response-body break-

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📍 Bellevue, WA; Menlo Park, CA· Full-time
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Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Security Platform team is responsible for the secure lifecycle, governance, and protection of Robinhood’s most sensitive user data. This team builds foundational systems such as secure data pipelines, tokenization services, and privacy compliance infrastructure to ensure customer data is handled responsibly and in line with regulations. The team works closely with security, infrastructure, and product engineering partners to ensure data is both usable and protected. You will contribute to systems that support authentication, third-party integrations, and emerging AI-driven use cases. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build backend systems that securely process and manage customer data across Robinhood’s platform. You will own the systems that handle authentication, authorization, and privacy-preserving data operations. This role involves close collaboration with engineers focused on access management, infrastructure, and data systems. Your work will directly support efforts to improve system reliability, strengthen data protections, and enable new product capabilities using secure data. This role is based in our Bellevue, WA, and Menlo Park, CA off

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