Sr. DevOps Engineer

<p><strong>This is a&nbsp;<strong data-start="709" data-end="783">100% remote position open only to candidates currently based in Canada</strong>. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada and reside in the country.<br><br></strong></p> <p><strong>About Point</strong></p> <p><strong>✨ Real Impact, Real People:</strong> Our mission at Point is to make homeownership more valuable and accessible. Your work directly helps homeowners access their wealth, achieve financial flexibility, and realize life changing goals.</p> <p><strong>✨ Funding:</strong> With over $175M raised from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, WestCap, Greylock, and Prudential, we’re scaling fast! You have the opportunity to join us at a pivotal stage.</p> <p><strong>✨ Game-changing Product:</strong> We're building a category defining company in home equity. We’ve earned a 4.7 Trustpilot rating and an A+ from the BBB, a testament to the value we provide to our 20,000+ customers.</p> <p><strong>✨ Great Place to Work:</strong> Our employees love working here! We are a <a href="https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7037273">Certified Great Place to Work and a Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area</a>.</p> <p><strong>✨ Remote First Culture, Genuine Connection:</strong> Work from anywhere in Canada, while staying closely connected through virtual collaboration, team gatherings, and a people-first culture.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p>This is an exciting opportunity to join Point as we expand our engineering presence in Canada. As one of the first DevOps engineers on the ground, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and scaling our Canada-based platform engineering team. You’ll work alongside a highly experienced and talented Platform Engineering group responsible for our AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and reliability systems, and AI-driven developer productivity initiatives. This role offers high ownership, meaningful impact, and the chance to help build the foundation of a growing global engineering organization.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Your responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Manage and scale AWS cloud infrastructure to support reliable and secure production systems</li> <li>Build, operate, and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments</li> <li>Develop and maintain IaC for consistent, auditable, and scalable environments</li> <li>Plan and execute infrastructure patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management with minimal service disruption</li> <li>Partner closely with the Security team to deploy and operate SAST, DAST, and SIEM solutions</li> <li>Lead the adoption of observability platforms and continuously improve infrastructure and application health monitoring</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About you</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering, with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.</li> <li>Strong experience with shell scripting (e.g., Bash) to automate infrastructure and development workflows</li> <li>Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or similar)</li> <li>Hands-on experience managing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation</li> <li>Experience containerizing applications using Docker and Cloud Native Buildpacks</li> <li>Solid experience with AWS services, including compute (ECS, EKS, EC2, Lambda), storage (S3), data services (RDS, Redis), and core governance and identity services (Control Tower, IAM)</li> <li>Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, or similar tools</li> <li>Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience leading developer productivity initiatives that measurably improve engineering efficiency and workflow optimization.</li> <li>Deeper experience designing and operating AWS security programs and services (e.g., GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub)</li> <li>Experience deploying and scaling SAST platforms such as SonarQube in multi-team or enterprise environments</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Compensation at Point will be determined by skills, experience, and geographic location.</p> <ul> <li>CAD 144,528 - 159,741</li> </ul> <p>This does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, including equity, benefits, and perks outlined above. At the launch of each position, we benchmark compensation to the appropriate role and level utilizing competitive compensation data from various data sources as references. At the offer stage, we use the signal we received from our interviews, coupled with your experience, location, and other job-related factors, to determine final compensation.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Point is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities regardless of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. Each individual at Point brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides better services to customers, and helps us all grow and learn.&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><a href="https://point.com/cpra-hr-applicant-privacy-notice" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">California Consumer Privacy Act Notice</span></a></p></div>