As a Senior Platform Engineer at Cority, you'll own platform services, design CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, and provide operational insights. You'll drive platform strategy and communicate technical trade-offs effectively.
About Cority
Cority helps customers see and prevent risks across their operations in real time. Our EHS+ platform converges people, data, and AI agents to provide a clear view of information people can trust, automate workflows that make people more impactful, and deliver personalized insights and expertise to improve decision-making. While most solutions respond to risks one at a time, Cority helps prevent them across environmental management, employee health, safety, quality, and sustainability. For 40 years, Cority has been the market leader in EHS+, recognized by top analysts and trusted by more than 1,500 of the most complex organizations worldwide. Cority has received many awards for its strong employee culture and outstanding business performance. To learn more, visit www.cority.com.
About the Role
You'll be a technical owner of our platform function; designing systems, eliminating friction for developers, and raising the bar on how we deliver software. This means leading with code and with conviction: you'll push back when something is wrong, drive decisions to closure, and make things meaningfully better. You won't be handed a roadmap. You'll help build one.
We move quickly, and we expect this person to thrive in that environment. If you've spent the last decade at a slow-moving enterprise, this probably isn't the right fit. If you've done your best work in high-growth SaaS environments where the constraints are real and the impact is immediate, keep reading.
What You'll Own:
- Core platform services and self-service tooling that developers want to use
- CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code that are fast, reliable, and well-understood across teams
- Observability and telemetry - not just dashboards, but genuine operational insight into workloads and infrastructure
- Cloud infrastructure across AWS/GCP: reliability, security, cost - you'll have a strong opinion on all three
- Service catalog and developer portal work, making tooling discoverable and self-service
- A meaningful voice in platform strategy and roadmap prioritization
What You Bring:
- 10+ years in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering - primarily at fast-moving SaaS companies
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP, and container orchestration at scale
- Strong IaC fluency - Pulumi, Terraform, or comparable
- CI/CD expertise, especially GitLab
- Python scripting
- Experience with Backstage, SonarQube, LaunchDarkly, or similar platform tooling
- Hands-on work with microservice architectures — development and support, not just observation
- Communication skills that translate technical trade-offs clearly across an engineering org
Technology we work with:
AWS / GCP / Kubernetes/ Pulumi /GitLab CI/CD / ArgoCD / Kustomize / Backstage / SonarQube / LaunchDarkly / Python / Observability / OpenTelemetry / Microservices
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
· An opportunity to work in a values-driven, performance oriented, dynamic and growth focused culture
· We support a remote working environment with a one-time home office allowance and subsidized monthly internet allowance
· Competitive health benefits, dental plans, and retirement savings plan (RRSP, 401K plan etc.)
· Annual fitness allowance
· Mental health support provided through access to Calm Premium meditation app and access to Talkspace
· Access to Udemy, internal training programs, annual training allowance and certifications (if applicable), and High Talent Programs
Cority is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. Cority is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, age, disability or any other legally protected status. For applicants who would like to request for accommodation please send an email to [email protected].
Top Skills
Argocd
AWS
Backstage
GCP
Gitlab Ci/Cd
Kubernetes
Kustomize
Launchdarkly
Opentelemetry
Pulumi
Python
Sonarqube
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