Job Title: Platform Engineer
Department: Software Development

Reports to: Staff Platform Engineer

Term: Full-Time Continuing

Location: Hybrid/Remote

About Us:

Behind every innovative new medical device, new healthcare policy, and research into new treatments, there’s a literature review. At DistillerSR Inc., we’re changing the way that scientific research is conducted. Founded in 2008, DistillerSR is the world’s leading AI-enabled workflow automation and evidence management platform for streamlining the production of critical literature-based health research.

DistillerSR is used by 80% of the top 10 global medical device and pharmaceutical companies to inform life-changing product research, prepare regulatory submissions and to monitor for safety issues with medical products once in market. At DistillerSR, we have three core values: Always Leading, Always Innovating, and Always Trusted. Our amazing team lives these values every day and our customers trust us to bring them innovative, world-leading solutions that power their important work.

If you want to be part of our world-class team and make global health research faster, safer and more cost effective, why not drop us a line.

About the Role:

As a Platform Engineer you will play a key role in the development of software and infrastructure components that allow the DistillerSR platform to scale and will help in the creation of internal tools which drive the productivity of the Product & Engineering teams.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work independently and collaboratively with Software Development, Quality Assurance, and Platform teams
• Architect, build, and maintain high traffic applications/services; responsible for system requirements, design, full-stack development, testing, deployment, support and operational aspects of the application
• Troubleshoot production issues across services/applications
• Mentor and guide developers on best practices on performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Participate in code reviews and pull requests.
• Work closely with Product Owners, UX, and other stakeholders to validate project objectives with customers.
• Lead the technical execution of projects from inception to completion.
• Manage multiple AWS environments.
• Participate in the software deployments (occasionally off-hours).
• Build and maintain internal tooling, pipelines and scripts needed to support team operations.
• Maintain disaster recovery capabilities and conduct RTO/RPO reviews.
• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent
• Have worked in a SaaS environment supporting high-traffic applications at scale
• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in software development
• Extensive experience with AWS
• Extensive experience with common web technologies, such as HTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes, including writing from Dockerfiles and Kubernetes manifests from scratch.
• Expert with both synchronous and asynchronous architecture patterns
• Experience with AWS CDK for provisioning infrastructure.
• Experience with the Agile Development Methodology.
• Experience working with and building REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Experience leveraging message queues to scale workloads.
• Understanding of application security requirements e.g. XSS protection, CSRF, Content Security Policies, SQL Injection protection with implementation as standard practice
• Ability to maintain a monitoring platform (DataDog) in order to be proactive in finding platform issues and problems as they arise.
• Experience with Python, Bash or other scripting languages
• Strong communicator and self-starter

As part of our recruitment process, we may utilize artificial intelligence tools to support or assist the review of applications. These tools may help us identify candidates whose qualifications best match job requirements.

DistillerSR Inc. is committed to providing a respectful, welcoming, and inclusive work environment where every single employee can bring their full self to work, thrive, and be successful. Please let us know if you need any accommodation during the recruitment process.