Platform Engineer - Toronto

Validus is looking for a Platform Engineer to join our growing platform team. The team builds and maintains the frameworks, infrastructure, and tools that power our technology platform, Horizon. You’ll help improve and support our AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and internal developer tooling, working closely with experienced engineers and other technical teams.

The platform team is part of the broader technology team working in collaboration with quants, frontend and backend engineers. Our teams work together to grow our technology platform, Horizon. Horizon comprises multiple applications for trade execution, portfolio management and risk analysis for alternative asset managers in various domains, such as private equity, private debt and real estate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain cloud-native services on AWS under guidance from senior engineers.
• Collaborate with the Quant team to help move compute-intensive simulations to scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of improvements to our job scheduling framework for quantitative workloads.
• Help integrate and maintain third-party tools (e.g., Snyk, Datadog) that support platform operations.
• Contribute to improving monitoring and observability across our systems.
• Support the containerisation of services and deployment on AWS.
• Help maintain clear documentation for platform projects and processes.

Participate in problem-solving design discussions and contribute ideas for potential solutions.

• Solid experience with one or more modern programming languages. We require a minimum of 1+ year of commercial experience with Python (within a Platform, Back-end or DevOps setting) though are happy to consider candidates who have the bulk of their experience in a different language.
• Experience with AWS. We use a wide range of services, but the ones we deal with the most are Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, API Gateway and Step Functions.
• Experience with databases. We use MySQL, MongoDB and DynamoDB, but experience with other database technologies would also be valuable.
• Experience with IaC tools such as CDK, Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experience in building and optimising CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog or New Relic.
• Knowledge of architecture patterns. Experience working on event-driven microservices is a plus.
• Curiosity to explore new technologies. We are constantly looking for potential technologies to improve our platform.
• Strong communication skills in working with other teams and mentoring more junior developers.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

• Experience with financial risk management software or platforms.
• Exposure to Python web frameworks such as FastAPI or Django.

• Validus assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $80,000 and $100,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualised basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the Validus total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include, generous bonus, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.
• Performance bonus linked to agreed success criteria - paid semi annually
• 20 days’ holiday (increasing to 25 with tenure) plus bank holidays
• Private health insurance (including dental, optical and mental health)
• Travel insurance
• Learning & development allowance and support for professional qualifications
• No AI is used to screen, assess or select applicants