Top Benefits
Remote work policy
Flexible hours
Internet/phone allowance
About the role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining high-quality software
- 7+ years of building development infrastructure on cloud platforms
- Experience building software systems at scale and heading transformation projects
- Experience with Github Actions, ArgoCd, Helm, Kubernetes & DataDog
- Great communication skills both with technical engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Great at mentoring others, being an evangelist for best practices
- Deep understanding of various architectural patterns and the tradeoffs therein
What the job involves
- Our team is looking for a Platform Engineer (12 month contract) to join our operations team and help shape Kobo’s platform ecosystem
- At Kobo, we develop software across a rich set of domains, including hardware devices, eCommerce, content rendering, and data & intelligence
- This diversity requires robust processes and patterns to enable our development teams to build great products quickly
- Play a key role in the re-platforming of our development infrastructure from SCM, to Ci/Cd pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and observability tooling
- Help design and build the interfaces through which the development teams interface with the infrastructure
- Keep current with emerging development patterns, ways of working, and evolution of the platforms they own
- Maintain 24/7 availability for responsible systems and participate in paid on-call rotation
Benefits
- "Work from anywhere" policy
- Flexible hours
- Internet/phone/commuting allowance
- Daily meal allowance when in the office
- $500 CAD flexible spending account
- Parental leave top-up
- Unlimited sick and mental health days
- 4-day summer holiday weekends
- RRSP matching, bonus and stock options
- Free Kobo eReader
- Free weekly book of your choice
- Volunteer time off
Top Benefits
Remote work policy
Flexible hours
Internet/phone allowance
About the role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining high-quality software
- 7+ years of building development infrastructure on cloud platforms
- Experience building software systems at scale and heading transformation projects
- Experience with Github Actions, ArgoCd, Helm, Kubernetes & DataDog
- Great communication skills both with technical engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Great at mentoring others, being an evangelist for best practices
- Deep understanding of various architectural patterns and the tradeoffs therein
What the job involves
- Our team is looking for a Platform Engineer (12 month contract) to join our operations team and help shape Kobo’s platform ecosystem
- At Kobo, we develop software across a rich set of domains, including hardware devices, eCommerce, content rendering, and data & intelligence
- This diversity requires robust processes and patterns to enable our development teams to build great products quickly
- Play a key role in the re-platforming of our development infrastructure from SCM, to Ci/Cd pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and observability tooling
- Help design and build the interfaces through which the development teams interface with the infrastructure
- Keep current with emerging development patterns, ways of working, and evolution of the platforms they own
- Maintain 24/7 availability for responsible systems and participate in paid on-call rotation
Benefits
- "Work from anywhere" policy
- Flexible hours
- Internet/phone/commuting allowance
- Daily meal allowance when in the office
- $500 CAD flexible spending account
- Parental leave top-up
- Unlimited sick and mental health days
- 4-day summer holiday weekends
- RRSP matching, bonus and stock options
- Free Kobo eReader
- Free weekly book of your choice
- Volunteer time off