Senior Platform Engineer

About DNAstack

DNAstacks mission is to accelerate precision medicine and research by making complex biomedical data more accessible interoperable and actionable. We build innovative software that helps researchers clinicians and institutions derive insights and improve health outcomes. Were proud to support global data sharing and scientific discovery while maintaining a deep commitment to privacy and security. Were a small but mighty startup team working at the intersection of bioinformatics cloud computing and open science.

Role Overview

As a Senior Platform Engineer youll take a leading role in designing building and evolving the core infrastructure that powers DNAstacks genomics software platforms. Youll be part of a small high-impact team that ensures our systems are secure reliable cost-efficient and empower developers to move quickly with confidence. This role blends infrastructure engineering developer productivity and security-minded systems design. Youll thrive here if you enjoy building scalable cloud environments automating everything and solving complex problems that improve the entire engineering organization.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Reliability

• Design build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure to support rapidly growing user workloads.
• Implement consistent and reliable deployment pipelines using GitOps and declarative workflows.
• Establish and monitor SLOs and error budgets to measure reliability and performance.
• Develop disaster recovery strategies and ensure business continuity through backups and redundancy.

Developer Platform & Automation

Security & Cost Optimization

Collaboration & Innovation

Qualifications

Bonus Points

Where Youll Work

This role offers the flexibility of a hybrid work environment allowing you to work both remotely and from our Toronto office. This arrangement supports your needs and promotes a healthy worklife balance. To be considered for this position you must be eligible to work in Canada.

The salary range for this role is $120000 - $170000 CAD. At DNAstack we are dedicated to providing pay transparency to all candidates. Compensation at DNAstack is determined through various factors including but not limited to : comparable salary market data within Canada technical skill assessment a holistic view of previous work history and internal pay equity with other DNAstack team members.

Benefits

Lets Talk

If this role sounds like a fitand youre excited to help shape the future of genomic medicinewed love to hear from you.

At DNAstack we are committed to building and fostering an inclusive accessible environment for everyone. If you have any questions concerns or requests regarding accessibility needs at any stage of the interview process please contact and we will work with you to meet your needs.

As a small but mighty team we use AI-powered tools to help us stay organized and efficient during our hiring processes. These tools help in areas such as sorting applications and highlighting matches to the role. These tools help us move faster but they definitely dont make decisions for us - every application is reviewed by a real human on our team.

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Note : this posting is for an existing vacancy that we are seeking to fill.

For compliance reasons all offers of employment at DNAstack are conditional upon a successful background check that may consist of prior employment verification reference checks education confirmation criminal background or other information as permitted by law.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

APIs,C / C++,Computer Graphics,Go,React,Redux,Node.js,AWS,Library Services,Assembly,GraphQL,High Voltage

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 120000 - 170000