Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

About Float

Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses, empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform, Float enables businesses to streamline financial operations and optimize cash flow, so they can focus on what matters most: growth.

As one of Canada’s fastest growing companies and top-rated startups in 2024 and 2023, Float is customer-obsessed, passionate and entrepreneurial, with a team that includes leaders from Uber, Shopify, Top Hat, Touch Bistro, and Ada.

At Float, everyone is an owner, bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important, and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision-making decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.

Float is Canada s complete business finance platform, combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend, save, and grow. Trusted by 5000+ Canadian companies, Float provides high-limit corporate cards, automated expense management, next-day bill payments, high-yield accounts and fast, friendly support—all built in Canada, for Canada. Float is backed by world-class venture and fintech investors, including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and OMERS Ventures, partners behind our $70 million Series B raise.

Our team is a collection of ambitious, collaborative and mission-driven people from all walks of life but with one goal: helping Canadian companies not just survive but thrive. And we’re looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada.

The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Float’s cloud infrastructure and developer platform to ensure high performance, scalability, and security. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, Dev Ops, and software development, with a strong emphasis on automation, reliability, and developer productivity.

In addition to deep cloud and operational expertise, we’re looking for someone with strong development experience who can design and implement services, frameworks, and tooling that accelerate our engineering organization and drive adoption of our event-driven architecture.

• Build and maintain a robust and efficient infrastructure by designing, deploying, and managing services such as ECS, EKS, and RDS.

• Optimize performance, availability, and reliability through monitoring, tuning, and continuous improvements.

• Ensure compliance with cloud security best practices by implementing and enforcing security measures across AWS environments and containerized applications.

• Maintain adherence to AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices.

• Design and develop a world-class Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that empowers engineers with self-service infrastructure, standardized workflows, and automated guardrails.

• Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve developer productivity, deployment speed, and system stability.

• Drive adoption of platform tooling and practices through documentation, advocacy, and direct collaboration with engineering teams.

• Contribute to the design and implementation of core platform services, frameworks, and libraries that underpin Float’s event-driven architecture.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate platform and security best practices directly into development workflows.

• Participate in application architecture reviews, providing input on scalability, resilience, and security.

• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in languages such as Go, Python, or Type Script.

• Identify and mitigate risks through security assessments, vulnerability scans, and threat modeling.

• Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, and incident response plans tailored to cloud and container environments.

• Support compliance with standards such as PCI-DSS 4.0 and SOC
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