DevOps Engineer

About the Position

Say hello to Newton! We're changing how Canadians trade crypto. Our goal? To make financial freedom something everyone can achieve. We give our customers the tools and knowledge they need to navigate the crypto world.

At Newton, you'll work with a remote team spread across Canada, but you'll never feel distant. Ready to be part of something meaningful? Join a team that’s all about pushing boundaries and getting things done.

Some of our values:

• Customer first mindset - Commitment to integrity and transparency to our users!
• A dynamic team fueled by collaboration uniting our strengths to overcome any obstacles. Together we build success. We persevere, adapt, and come back stronger, turning obstacles into opportunities.
• We strive for continuous improvement and embrace creativity and encourage experimentation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible and continuously explore new ideas, technologies, and solutions.

We are searching for a DevOps Engineer to improve how we build, deploy and run our systems. This role works across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability and operational tooling in an AWS-based environment spanning backend, frontend and internal services.

Responsibilities

• Improve and maintain CI/CD, deployment workflows, and environment management across backend, web, and internal services
• Build, maintain and scale infrastructure across AWS and container-based services
• Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, tracing, and runbooks
• Work with engineers on safer deploys, rollback plans, and recovery from failures
• Automate repetitive operational work and improve internal tooling
• Maintain and improve infrastructure as code and deployment tooling
• Help improve failover planning, recovery procedures, and backup/restore testing for critical systems
• Support production systems and take part in on-call for critical services
• Manage and scale infrastructure across AWS, ECS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, and Go/Python-based services
• Lead incident response and postmortems, and drive follow-up actions to reduce repeat issues
• Improve reliability, resilience, and operational readiness across critical systems

Requirements

• Experience running production systems in AWS or a similar cloud environment
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, load balancers, DNS, and connectivity between services
• Comfort with Linux, shell scripting, Python, and Go
• Experience with Docker and ECS or Kubernetes
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Pulumi, Terraform, or similar tooling
• Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability tools
• Good understanding of PostgreSQL, Redis, queues, async workers, and scheduled jobs
• Familiarity with Cloudflare or similar edge, networking, or traffic management tooling
• A practical approach to automation, reliability, and day-to-day operational work
• Experience with on-call and incident response for business-critical systems
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, infrastructure, and data layers

We Offer

At Newton, we celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

About the Company

Join Newton as we revolutionize the way Canadians trade crypto. Our mission is to make financial freedom accessible to everyone. We provide our customers with the tools and knowledge they need to navigate the crypto world. Our remote team, spread across Canada, is united by a commitment to integrity, transparency, and continuous improvement. Together, we push boundaries, embrace creativity, and explore new ideas, technologies, and solutions to achieve our goals.