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Staff Platform Engineer

Toronto, ONOnsiteFull TimeStaffPosted 16 days ago

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Required skills

  • Platform Engineering
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Python
  • Go
  • JavaScript
  • Internal Developer Platform

Nice to have

  • feature flagging
  • Monorepo tooling

Role summary

Clutch, a leading online used car retailer in Canada, is seeking its first Staff Platform Engineer to build and evolve their internal platform. This role focuses on creating self-service tooling, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform) to enhance developer productivity and scalability. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in platform engineering or DevOps, a strong software engineering background (Python, Go, JavaScript), and experience driving technical strategy. This is a hybrid role based in Toronto, offering significant ownership and autonomy to shape the future of Clutch's engineering practices.

About Clutch:

Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car buying and selling experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee… and that’s just the beginning.

Named one of Canada's top growing Companies two years in a row and also awarded a spot on LinkedIn's Top Canadian Startups list, we're looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team.

Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors, including Canaan, BrandProject, Real Ventures, D1 Capital, and Upper90. To learn more, visit clutch.ca.

About the Role

Platform Engineering is becoming a strategic investment at Clutch, and we're looking for our first dedicated Staff Platform Engineer to help define what that looks like.

This isn't about maintaining infrastructure, it's about building the internal platform that enables every engineer at Clutch to move faster, ship safer, and operate at scale.

You'll partner closely with engineering leadership to define our platform strategy, establish engineering standards, and build the self-service tooling, infrastructure, and developer workflows that become the foundation for how engineering operates. From CI/CD and cloud infrastructure to developer experience, observability, and internal tooling, you'll own the technical direction of the platform and have the autonomy to build it the right way.

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving organization-wide engineering problems, thinks in systems rather than individual services, and wants to create leverage for dozens of engineers rather than shipping features for one product team.

This is a rare opportunity to build Platform Engineering from the ground up, defining the strategy, establishing the function, and growing the team as Clutch continues to scale.

What you’ll do:

  • Define and execute Clutch's Platform Engineering strategy.
  • Build and evolve our Internal Developer Platform to improve developer productivity through self-service tooling.
  • Own the architecture and evolution of our CI/CD platform and deployment workflows.
  • Design and scale cloud infrastructure using AWS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
  • Improve developer velocity through automation, platform tooling, and infrastructure improvements.
  • Define platform standards and reusable infrastructure patterns that improve reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence across the organization.

    • What we’re looking for:

  • 8+ years building cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or developer tooling at scale.
  • Experience operating as a Staff Engineer, Technical Lead, or senior individual contributor driving technical strategy across multiple teams.
  • Deep experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, and modern CI/CD platforms.
  • Strong software engineering mindset with experience building tooling in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar languages.
  • Experience designing scalable developer platforms, deployment systems, or engineering enablement tooling.
  • Proven ability to identify organization-wide technical problems and build long-term solutions rather than short-term fixes.
  • Excellent written communication and documentation skills with the ability to influence engineers and technical leadership.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with significant ownership and ambiguity.

    • Nice to Have

  • Experience with feature flagging platforms
  • Experience with Monorepo tooling
  • Experience designing an Internal Developer Platform

    • Why you’ll love it at Clutch:

  • Autonomy & ownership – opportunity to build your process and influence the company workforce and at every level.
  • Help shape the future of car buying and selling in Canada by leading a critical part of our customer experience.
  • We are dedicated to attracting and retaining top talent with top-of-market compensation packages.
  • Above market health & dental benefits.

    • Employment Type:

  • New, Permanent Full-Time
  • Hybrid, Downtown Toronto three days a week

    • Compensation & Benefits:

  • Salary range: $200,000+ per annum
  • Benefits: Comprehensive benefits plans include healthcare, dental care, vision care, prescriptions, life insurance and dependent coverage; start from day 1. (Applicable for Permanent Full-Time)
  • Pay decisions reflect objective criteria: skills, performance, market benchmarking, responsibilities and working conditions.

    • Clutch is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. If you require accommodation at any stage of the interview process, please email talent@clutch.ca.

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