Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Stream
Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeCAD 155,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Self-directed","Project ownership","Problem-solving","Cross-functional collaboration","Incident response"]

Help rebuild the platform infrastructure for a high-scale real-time services provider, owning major parts of migrations from AWS to GCP and adoption of Kubernetes. You’ll re-architect workloads for cost/performance, move PostgreSQL shards off managed RDS, optimize cloud spend using real usage data, and write production Go and Python to build internal services, tooling, and automation. You’ll also lead post-migration tuning and participate in on-call and incident response.

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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Help rebuild the platform infrastructure for a high-scale real-time services provider, owning major parts of migrations from AWS to GCP and adoption of Kubernetes. You’ll re-architect workloads for cost/performance, move PostgreSQL shards off managed RDS, optimize cloud spend using real usage data, and write production Go and Python to build internal services, tooling, and automation. You’ll also lead post-migration tuning and participate in on-call and incident response.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate infrastructure for real-time systems handling millions of concurrent connections and billions of monthly API requests.
  • •Drive Kubernetes end-to-end work, including cluster architecture, workload design, and service migration.
  • •Re-architect workloads as part of the AWS to GCP migration for cost and performance.
  • •Own cloud cost and efficiency work using real spend and utilization data, and close the loop between architecture and production behavior.
  • •Write production Go and Python for internal services, platform tooling, and automation; participate in on-call, incident response, and root cause analysis.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 155,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Paid LeaveEquityWellness StipendLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering with clear depth in infrastructure over application development.
  • •Production coding experience in Go or Python (not just scripting or configuration).
  • •Kubernetes experience at meaningful production scale, including driving cluster strategy, workload design, or leading a migration.
  • •Led cloud cost or efficiency optimization on AWS or GCP with measurable outcomes; FinOps practice is a plus.
  • •Strong cloud fundamentals (networking, compute, storage, IAM) and hands-on experience running high-scale, high-load production systems.
Experience:5+ yearsInfrastructurePlatformDevOpsSRE
Skills:Self-directedProject ownershipProblem-solvingCross-functional collaborationIncident response
Tech Stack:GoGRPCRocksDBPythonPostgreSQLRabbitMQGCPGrafanaPrometheusELKElasticsearchKibanaJaegerTempoDatadogRedisMemcachedClaude CodeCursorKubernetes

Company Brief

Stream
Provides scalable APIs and SDKs for building activity feeds, chat, and messaging features in web and mobile applications, enabling developers to add social and real-time experiences quickly.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded: 2014
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