Platform Engineer

2 days ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Rakuten Kobo Full time

Job Description:

Here at Rakuten Kobo we offer a casual working start-up environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. Our employees rank us highly in terms of commitment to work/life balance. We realize that for our people to be innovative, creative, and passionate they need to feel valued and supported.

If you're looking for a company that inspires passion, personal, and professional growth – join Rakuten Kobo and come help us on our mission of making reading lives better.

The Role:

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.

What You Get To Do:

  • 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

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

About Rakuten Kobo Inc.

Owned by Tokyo-based Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto, Rakuten Kobo Inc. is one of the most advanced global ecommerce companies, with the world's most innovative eReading services offering more than 6 million eBooks and audiobooks to 30 million + customers in 190 countries. Kobo delivers the best digital reading experience through creative innovation, award-winning eReaders, and top-ranking mobile apps. Kobo is a part of the Rakuten group of companies.

Rakuten Kobo Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Accessibility accommodations for candidates with disabilities participating in the selection process are available on request. Any information received related to accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially.
 

Rakuten Kobo would like to thank all applicants for their interest in this role however only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.

Beware of fraudulent job offers claiming to be from Rakuten. Rakuten does not send unsolicited job offers or request money during the recruitment process. Learn more: 

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