AutoScout24

Digital Automotive Solutions

SeniorPlatformEngineer

CA$130–160k Canada
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Platform Engineer at AutoScout24. Skills: Platform Engineering, GenAI, AWS. Build internal AI platform. Operate internal AI platform”

What You'll Achieve.

Ship software quickly; Ship software safely; Make developers productive; Move fast

Industry & Context.

Digital Automotive Solutions
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years experience building infrastructure, Hands-on GenAI experience, AWS fundamentals, Solid engineering fundamentals, Familiarity with SRE principles, Familiarity with observability concepts, Code in Python, Go, or TypeScript

Nice to Have

Kubernetes experience a plus, Infrastructure as Code experience a plus, Pipeline as Code experience a plus

What You'll Do.

Build internal AI platform

Operate internal AI platform

Own products end to end

Figure out developer friction

Make developer work easier

Take ownership of topics

Keep stakeholders informed

Set bar for building with AI

Turn ideas into tooling

Shape architecture choices

Shape technology choices

Keep platform reliable

Keep platform observable

Keep platform cost-aware

Join on-call rotation

Troubleshoot production incidents

Capture reusable patterns

Capture reusable templates

Capture reusable blueprints

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Fellow engineers as customers; Stakeholders; Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Share opinions clearly

Process & Methodology

Product mindset

Full Job Description

We are a Canadian leader in digital automotive solutions. Our flagship brands — AutoTrader.ca, AutoSync, Dealertrack Canada and CMS — help Canadians buy, sell, and finance vehicles with confidence. AutoTrader.ca is Canada’s largest automotive marketplace, with over 25 million monthly visits. Through AutoSync, we provide software solutions to 3,500+ dealers, streamlining their operations, marketing, and sales. Dealertrack Canada is the country’s top automotive financing portal, processing more than 6.5 million credit applications each year. Collateral Management (CMS) is a national tech solution that boosts lien and registration services, recovery services, and insolvency management solutions for Canadian Lenders As part of AutoScout24 group, Europe’s largest online car marketplace, we’re shaping the future of automotive retail in Canada and beyond. Join us on our journey as we bring together the best of Europe and North America to shape the future of automotive retail. --- About the role Join our Platform Engineering team at AutoScout24 Group / Trader Corporation. We build the internal platform that 600+ developers rely on to ship software quickly and safely: centralized Kubernetes, managed CI/CD, project templates, and the developer tooling that runs on top of AWS. Our customers are developers. We live "you build it, you run it" and we invest in self-service and a product mindset so a small team can have a big impact. A big part of that today is making developers more productive with AI, and we're already deep in it. We've driven AI tooling adoption across the company and we're building out the platform behind it: secure managed environments for AI coding tools, AI-assisted CI (automated PR reviews, fixes for failing builds), agentic workflows on AWS (Bedrock, Agent Core), and MCP-based integrations. The AI is the means, not the end. What we care about is a faster, smoother day-to-day for every engineer, and AI is the biggest lever we have. We're looking for a seni

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