AutoTrader.ca
Automotive Digital Solutions
SeniorPlatformEngineer
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“Senior Platform Engineer at AutoTrader.ca. Skills: Platform Engineering, AI Platform, AWS, Kubernetes. Build internal AI platform. Operate internal AI platform”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years infrastructure/platform experience, Hands-on GenAI experience, Built with LLM APIs, Used tool/function calling, Used retrieval agents, Used agent frameworks, Used AI coding tools, AWS fundamentals, Infrastructure as Code, Pipeline as Code, Solid engineering fundamentals, Code well in Python, Code well in Go, Code well in TypeScript
Nice to Have
Experience with Kubernetes
What You'll Do.
Build internal AI platform
Operate internal AI platform
Design products end to end
Build products end to end
Run products end to end
Improve products end to end
Figure out developer friction
Decide what makes work easier
Measure feature adoption
Take ownership of topics
Keep stakeholders informed
Set bar for building with AI
Turn idea 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; People across functions
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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