About Float

Float is one of Canada’s fastest growing companies and Top Startups, serving Canadian businesses with our innovative smart corporate card and spend management solution. Float’s team is customer-obsessed, passionate, vibrant, and entrepreneurial, and includes executives from Uber, Shopify, Ritual, and many other incredible tech companies!

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, feedback, and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision making decentralized so that all team members contribute.

Our Product

Float empowers companies and teams with smart financial products, helping them achieve their most ambitious goals. We’re making finance more accessible and saving companies and their teams time and money, while disrupting the multi-trillion dollar global B2B finance industry. Backed by some of the best venture capital investors in the world, including Tiger Global, Golden Ventures, and Susa Ventures, we’re looking for pioneers to help us achieve our vision.

About the Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure and Security role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be crucial in designing, implementing, and maintaining our AWS cloud infrastructure while ensuring our systems are secure and resilient. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to address technical and security challenges, balancing the need for scalability and performance with robust security measures.

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Float:

• Build and maintain a robust and efficient infrastructure by designing, deploying, and managing services such as ECS, EKS, and RDS.
• Enhance operational efficiency by developing and implementing automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Atlantis, with stringent controls over infrastructure creation and modification.
• Ensure compliance with cloud security best practices by implementing and enforcing security measures across AWS environments and containerized applications.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure performance, availability, and reliability through continuous monitoring and targeted improvements.
• Maintain adherence to AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices by effectively managing and troubleshooting cloud resources.
• Identify and mitigate potential risks through regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and threat modeling.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive security policies, procedures, and incident response plans tailored to cloud and container environments that also support various regulatory and compliance regimes (Such as PCI-DSS 4.0 and SOC2).
• Integrate cloud infrastructure and security best practices into development workflows by collaborating closely with engineering and operations teams.
• Provide valuable input on design and application security by participating in architecture reviews and acting as a trusted partner for our stakeholders.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in AWS cloud infrastructure and security.