wealthsimple - Staff Software Engineer, Observability Platform

Remote - Canada1mo ago

Remote Staff NA Fintech Artificial Intelligence Staff Engineer Software Engineer Claude Ruby Kotlin Kubernetes

Requirements

• Significant software engineering experience, typically 8+ years, with a software development background rather than a primarily operations or systems-administration one. You build platforms and tools as software, with the design, testing, and engineering rigor that implies. • A hands-on, current coder in more than one language such as Kotlin and Ruby. You are comfortable across multiple stacks, and you still spend meaningful time writing and shipping production code. • Direct experience building an observability or telemetry platform and its SDKs before. You have shipped the instrumentation libraries, pipelines, and shared platforms that other engineers build on, and you carry the deep technical expertise this team is founded on. • Depth in event-based and high-cardinality systems. You understand wide structured events, columnar or streaming backends, cardinality, sampling, tagging, and context propagation, and the tradeoffs of ingesting and querying telemetry at scale. • Fluency with open standards and instrumentation. Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry or an equivalent, and with SLI and SLO design, is core to how you work. • Comfort making significant changes in ambiguous codebases. You can enter a system you did not build, form an accurate model of it quickly, and change it safely and substantially. • Proficiency with AI coding tools and LLMs. You use tools such as Claude Code fluently in your daily workflow, you have a clear point of view on where they help and where they do not, and you keep quality high while moving faster. • Strong communication and influence. You partner well with other engineering teams, explain complex tradeoffs clearly, and improve the systems and the people around you. • Experience in a regulated or fintech environment, familiarity with Kubernetes and progressive delivery such as Argo Rollouts, experience with columnar stores such as ClickHouse, and experience building observability for LLM and agent-based workloads.

Benefits

• 🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance • 📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business • 🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year • ✈️ 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year • 👥 Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS • 🌎 We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work. • Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple: We move quickly and build thoughtfully. That means we're always looking for better ways to work — whether that's new tools, AI, or rethinking how we approach a problem. We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect curiosity and a willingness to evolve alongside the products we're building. • Inclusion Statement: We're building products for a diverse world, and we need a diverse team to do it well. We strongly encourage applications from everyone, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. • Accessibility Statement: We're committed to an accessible hiring experience. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please let us know — we'll work with you to make sure you have what you need. We also welcome any feedback on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs. • AI in Hiring: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our team but don't replace human judgment – all final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have questions about how your data is used, reach out to us.