Senior / Founding Software Engineer (Cloud + AI Systems)
Location: Montreal or San Francisco, on-site 4 days/week
Company: Arvo AI
Compensation: CAD $100k–$200k with equity
Eligibility: Must be legally entitled to work in Canada at start date (no sponsorship)
Role & Impact
As one of Aurora’s earliest senior engineers, you’ll shape the architecture, reliability, and evolution of our platform. You’ll manage dev/staging/prod environments, write production code, fix bugs, and design resilient systems powering natural-language cloud automation. You’ll work directly with the founders to engineer AI-driven cloud orchestration systems, bridging cutting-edge research with production-grade infrastructure.
This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives at the intersection of deep technical execution and guiding engineering direction.

What You’ll Do

• Manage and harden development, staging, and production environments.
• Write robust software to ship new product features and maintain high-quality code.
• Debug and fix complex bugs across distributed systems.
• Architect reliable and scalable cloud-native systems, ensuring security and performance.
• Engineer AI-based orchestration pipelines for cloud automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Collaborate with founders on product direction and technical strategy.

You Have

• 3+ years experience in software engineering, with strong exposure to infrastructure/platform/SRE.
• Proficiency in cloud engineering across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible).
• Advanced understanding of Kubernetes (controllers, operators, cluster internals).
• Strong coding ability in Go, Rust, or Python with solid systems fundamentals (distributed systems, networking, concurrency).
• Hands-on with policy-as-code (OPA/Rego or similar).
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating production-grade cloud systems.
• A mindset that balances hands-on execution with guiding engineering best practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or scaling AI/ML-powered systems.
• Contributions to OSS (Terraform, Kubernetes, Pulumi, CNCF projects).
• Familiarity with service mesh, eBPF, or advanced cloud security practices.
• Background in multi-cloud cost optimization, observability, or supply-chain security.

Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $100,000.00-$200,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee stock purchase plan

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 1V

• Manage and harden development, staging, and production environments.
• Write robust software to ship new product features and maintain high-quality code.
• Debug and fix complex bugs across distributed systems.
• Architect reliable and scalable cloud-native systems, ensuring security and performance.
• Engineer AI-based orchestration pipelines for cloud automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Collaborate with founders on product direction and technical strategy