Lead Platform & Data Infrastructure Engineer

About Minga

At Minga, we’re creating the Student Behavior Platform schools can’t imagine running without. We’re on a mission to make school life run smoother and have fun while we’re at it.

We’re a tight-knit team of curious, creative, and low-ego humans who genuinely enjoy working together. We care deeply about the work we do and the people we do it with, and that shows up in how we lead, collaborate, and celebrate.

Our culture is built on trust, ownership, and continuous learning. Whether you’re working from our Kelowna HQ or remotely, you’ll have the autonomy to do your best work, the support to grow, and the opportunity to make a real impact in the lives of educators and students.

The Role

We’re not just hiring for a position, we’re adding a teammate. We are looking for a Lead Platform & Data Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve the systems that power both our product runtime and our analytics ecosystem. This is a senior, systems-level role for someone who thinks in platforms, not just services.

Minga is scaling its product, its infrastructure, and its data capabilities. Today, our systems support current growth. But as we scale users, data volume, and engineering headcount, we need stronger foundations across:

Infrastructure reliability

Developer platform tooling

Database scalability

Data pipelines and analytics architecture

What You’ll Do

Infrastructure & Reliability at Scale

Lead evolution of our Kubernetes-based infrastructure.

Improve resilience, scalability, and fault isolation.

Strengthen networking, database connection strategies, and service reliability.

Reduce production risk through proactive reliability engineering.

 Data Platform & Pipelines

Design and implement reliable data pipelines from product systems to our data warehouse.

Help decouple OLTP workloads from analytics workloads.

Improve data reliability, monitoring, and lineage.

Collaborate with product and analytics stakeholders to support reporting needs.

Ensure data systems scale with customer growth and usage patterns.

Developer Platform & CI/CD

Improve CI/CD reliability and deployment confidence.

Simplify local and ephemeral development environments.

Build repeatable infrastructure patterns via infrastructure-as-code.

Reduce friction for engineers shipping features.

 Observability & Operational Excellence

Improve logging, metrics, tracing, and system visibility.

Define SLIs/SLOs for both product runtime and data systems.

Lead technical post-incident reviews and systemic improvements.

Establish clarity in operational health reporting.

A Lead Platform & Data Infrastructure Engineer

Anticipates scale constraints before they become outages.

Designs systems that engineers don’t need to think about.

Balances runtime reliability with data scalability.

Improves velocity by reducing operational drag.

Makes architectural decisions that hold up under 5–10x growth.

What We Require

7+ years in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.

Strong production experience with Kubernetes.

Experience operating systems on GCP (or similar cloud provider).

Experience building or maintaining data pipelines and warehouse integrations.

Strong understanding of database scaling, connection management, and replication.

Experience with CI/CD systems and infrastructure-as-code.

Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker).

Strong debugging skills in distributed systems.

Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Who You Are

Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS systems.

Experience with streaming/event-driven architectures.

Experience with data warehouse platforms (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift).

Experience improving OLTP-to-OLAP separation.

Familiarity with observability tooling (Honeycomb, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).

Experience supporting analytics or BI teams.

How We Work (and What We Value)
Our values aren’t just what we believe, they’re how we show up every day:

🌱 Growth – Always learning, always evolving
💬 Respect – Every voice matters
🧭 Integrity – Doing what’s right, even when it’s hard
🔥 Passion – Bringing energy and heart to everything we do

What You Can Expect at Minga

Flexible, Hybrid-First Work: Work in a way that works for you. Our hybrid model blends in-office collaboration days with the freedom of remote work. Some roles are fully remote, and we make sure our remote teammates are just as engaged, connected, and celebrated as those in the office. We are open to hybrid , Kelowna or remote candidates for this role. 

Inclusive leadership: Monthly CEO Lunch & Learns, open Q&As, and transparent updates; our leadership team listens, acts, and keeps the lines of communication open

Culture of connection: Social events, virtual meetups, and 2 annual offsites to bring everyone together

Growth investment: We invest in you. With dedicated time and budget for growth, you’ll have the freedom to explore, upskill, and expand your impact

Recognition that matters:  From Slack shoutouts to company-wide recognition we pause to celebrate progress
Perks with purpose: 

Equitable pay + transparency

15 Days vacation + 5 Flex Days

Health, dental, and vision benefits for you & your family

Mental health and wellness support

A team that leads with heart, values every voice, and loves what they do

👋 Sound like your kind of place? Apply now, we’d love to meet you.

What You Can Expect From Us

At Minga, you’re more than just an application, you’re a real person with a story we want to hear. Every résumé is reviewed by a human on our team (no bots ghosting you here), and we make it our mission to keep you in the loop from hello to final decision.

We believe in clear communication, mutual respect, and making sure every candidate walks away feeling valued; whether we end up working together or not.

If this role feels like a fit, or even a maybe, hit that apply button. We’re genuinely excited to learn more about you.

Let’s build something meaningful together.

Note about compensation: At Minga it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.