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

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, workplace management

Security-minded — you know how to harden systems without creating friction for product engineers

Experience with observability tooling — CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Investing in you

Competitive salary

Medical coverage

Access to educational resources and courses

📌 Senior Platform Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Burq
📍 Winnipeg