About the Role
Join us as a Software Engineer building the next generation of AI products. This hands-on engineering role combines Platform Engineering, Security, and Software Development to create the cloud platform that powers our applications at scale. You'll spend approximately 50% of your time building secure, automated, and reliable infrastructure, and the other 50% developing innovative product features - working with the latest cloud, AI, and developer technologies to deliver solutions used across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Maintain efficient cloud Infrastructure, and development environments.
- Develop integrations with social media platforms, enterprise systems, and external APIs/MCPs.
- Improve platform reliability, monitoring, logging, and performance.
- Build and maintain data pipelines supporting AI products.
- Ensure data quality, governance, and secure data handling.
- Implement secure deployment practices and automated quality gates.
- Perform vulnerability assessments, dependency management, and security testing.
- Support penetration testing, remediation, and security hardening initiatives.
- Ensure products follow secure coding standards and compliance requirements.
- Design, develop, and maintain full-stack web applications and APIs.
- Build scalable backend services and modern frontend experiences.
- Participate in architecture, code reviews, and technical design discussions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, or a related technical field.
- 2–3 years of experience in software development, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build), Docker, and cloud infrastructure management.
- Working knowledge of application security, including secure coding, IAM, OAuth/SSO, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and security best practices.
- Experience developing full-stack applications and APIs using modern technologies.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to manage production environments, monitor system health, and improve platform reliability.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, infrastructure, and security teams in an Agile environment.
- Experience integrating APIs, building automation workflows (e.g., n8n), and working with AI/LLM platforms such as Gemini, Vertex AI, OpenAI, or Claude.
- Familiarity with UX flows and writing specs/SOPs.
- Exposure automation or agentic workflows.
Skills
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build)
- Docker
- Cloud infrastructure management
- Application security
- Secure coding
- IAM
- OAuth/SSO
- Secrets management
- Vulnerability remediation
- Security best practices
- Full-stack application development
- API development
- Problem-solving
- Troubleshooting
- Production environment management
- System monitoring
- Platform reliability improvement
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Agile methodologies
- API integration
- Automation workflows (e.g., n8n)
- AI/LLM platforms (Gemini, Vertex AI, OpenAI, Claude)
- UX flows
- Writing specs/SOPs
- Automation
- Agentic workflows
Location
- TORONTO (HYBRID)
Work Type
- HYBRID
Experience Level
- 2–3 years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, or a related technical field.
Salary/Compensations
- $65,000–$85,000
Benefits
- Hybrid setup
- Up to 28 paid days off
- Winter holiday shutdowns
- Health, dental, and vision plans
- Salt Bucks to spend on wellness, RRSPs, or extra time off
- Dedicated Salt Days
- Top-tier learning access
- Formal leadership development
- Legendary team trips
- Seasonal socials
- Salt Swag
- Referral and new business bonuses
- Exclusive lifestyle perks
- Personalized wellness options
- DEI programs
- Active ERGs
About the Company
- At Salt Media, we're on a mission to earn the world's attention. As the media division of Salt XC, we're building a different kind of agency where media, commerce, creative, data and technology work as a single connected team. Our people combine strategic thinking with AI-powered tools, automation and advanced analytics to help some of North America's most recognized brands solve complex business challenges and drive measurable growth. We move quickly, challenge convention, and believe the best ideas come from curious people who are empowered to experiment. If you're looking to do career-defining work alongside smart, ambitious teammates in an environment that's shaping the future of media, we'd love to meet you.
Equal Opportunity
- Salt XC is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability.
