Principal Platform Software Developer

Zetron Canada Office | Victoria, BC

• Full-time / M-F / 40hrs per week
• Hybrid with the expectation to be onsite 3+ days per week for team collaboration.
• This position has been evaluated with an annual base salary range of $160,000 - $190,000 CAD. The target hiring range is $160,000 - $180,000 CAD, ensuring room for continued growth in remuneration through annual performance and compensation reviews. Offers will be determined based on the successful candidate’s assessed skills, experience and qualifications.

Join our Mission:

Zetron is an established global leader in connecting communication centers with field operations, personnel, and constituents. With offices in the US, UK, AU and CA, Zetron currently has a network of established partners, value-added resellers, and clients in more than 100 countries. Our Victoria, British Columbia office has been a center of engineering and manufacturing excellence since its founding in 1938. For over 80 years, we have been a trusted provider of LMR communication products and solutions that help our customers protect, inform, and save lives. Now we are applying those standards of excellence to build and deliver interoperable end-to-end command and control systems across multiple industries and international markets. With over 400 team members located across the globe, our developers work on platforms and products where reliability, security, and operational excellence are foundational, not optional. Always ready, always on!

Role Responsibilities:

Zetron is seeking a Principal Platform Software Developer to join the Platform Engineering Team as a senior individual contributor. In this role, you will provide technical leadership across Zetron’s platform ecosystem, spanning both DevOps and Cloud/SRE concerns. You will design, review, and evolve cloud and on-premises application platforms that support mission-critical systems with demanding reliability, security, and operational requirements.

This role operates with minimal oversight and significant autonomy. You will work across teams and domains to solve complex platform challenges, influence architectural direction, and ensure platform capabilities align with long-term business, reliability, and security goals. While this is not a people-management role, it carries broad technical accountability and organizational influence with an expectation of mentorship for all members on the team.

Platform Architecture and Technical Leadership

• Design and evolve cloud and on-premises platform architectures supporting mission-critical applications
• Review and guide platform designs and implementations across DevOps and Cloud/SRE streams
• Define platform patterns, standards, and reference architectures that scale across teams
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to leaders and application teams
• Be an advocate and safe-guard for quality of design and code that is produced by the platform engineering team

Reliability, Security, and Operational Excellence

• Embed reliability and security considerations into platform architecture and design decisions
• Identify systemic reliability and security risks and drive platform-wide improvements
• Guide the evolution of observability, incident response practices, and operational maturity
• Ensure platform designs align with organizational reliability targets, risk tolerance, and compliance requirements

Cloud, Infrastructure, and Automation

• Design and influence cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities, primarily in AWS, with awareness of hybrid and on-prem environments
• Guide the use of infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and automation to improve consistency, safety, and scalability
• Evaluate and influence tooling and technology choices across the platform ecosystem
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code automation tools like Atmos, Spacelift, Terraform Cloud, or similar

Incident Response and Risk Management

• Provide senior technical leadership during high-severity incidents and complex outages
• Drive post-incident learning and ensure systemic issues are addressed through design and process changes
• Contribute to disaster recovery strategy, architectural readiness, and recovery planning
• Run disaster recovery drills, identifying key failures, and opportunities for improvement

Collaboration and Mentorship

• Mentor Staff and Senior developers through design reviews, technical guidance, and problem-solving
• Collaborate with security, operations, and product stakeholders to align platform capabilities with business needs
• Raise the technical bar through example, documentation, and clear technical communication

Become part of our Team:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of experience and education
• Ten or more years of experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, SRE, or closely related roles, evaluated on a skills basis
• Deep hands-on experience designing and operating production platforms in cloud and/or hybrid environments
• Strong experience with AWS and modern cloud architectures
• Advanced experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and automation practices
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, observability, and incident response
• Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and technical decisions across teams

Benefits & Culture:

Our culture is supportive and collaborative within a multidisciplinary team where we share our ideas and innovation is strongly encouraged. We are looking for a new team member with genuine passion and can-do attitude for what they do! We are located near beautiful downtown Victoria in the newly restored Press Building with modern office space built for collaboration!

As a member of the Zetron Team, you will have access to:

• Competitive benefits package
• Healthcare & Wellness Spending Account
• Company matched retirement savings program
• Incentive plan
• Paid time off

Plus, you can take advantage of flexible working hours within an easy-going environment. We celebrate our successes with company sponsored events and look forward to having you join us!

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