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SENIOR FULL-STACK ENGINEER (MEDIA TEAM) Location: Ottawa, ON or Toronto, ON | Hybrid Department: R&D | Video Type: Permanent | Full-Time Vacancy Status: This is an active, approved role and we are currently hiring for this position. ABOUT SOLINK At Solink, our mission is to safeguard what matters most. We provide businesses with the tools to know sooner and act faster by transforming video security into real-time operational insights. Our cloud-based platform integrates seamlessly with your existing cameras and systems, turning them into intelligent sensors that detect and interpret key moments. This empowers teams to make data-driven decisions, enhance security, and improve operational efficiency. Trusted by over 36,000 locations across 60+ countries - including brands like McDonald’s and JYSK - Solink delivers clarity when it counts. Our solutions help businesses reduce shrink, optimize performance, and respond proactively to potential threats. We're growing rapidly, earning industry recognition, and scaling with purpose. We’ve been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™, Business Intelligence Group, and as one of Ottawa’s Best Places to Work. And we’re just getting started! THE ROLE As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on the Media Team, you will be responsible for the cloud services that power Solink's media pipeline: ingesting, processing, storing, and serving media data at scale for over 36,000 customer locations. You'll work deep in AWS-native infrastructure, building services that are cost-efficient, observable, and resilient under real-world load. This role is ideal for a senior backend or full-stack engineer who thinks in terms of throughput, latency, and cost per gigabyte as much as they think in code; someone who is comfortable owning a service from design through production operation, and who treats reliability and resource efficiency as first-class design constraints rather than afterthoughts. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design, build, and operate backend services that handle media ingestion, processing, storage, and retrieval at scale. - Work extensively with core AWS services (SQS, S3, Lambda, and related managed services) to build event-driven, loosely coupled pipelines. - Leverage AI tools effectively throughout the development lifecycle, from planning, design, implementation to operation, debugging and observability. - Design and evolve media platform APIs and contracts for multiple internal, as well as external consumers with contract and end-to-end tests. - Instrument services with meaningful observability: structured logging, metrics, and traces built on OpenTelemetry concepts, so behaviour in production is understandable regardless of the underlying vendor (Datadog, Grafana, Honeycomb, or otherwise). - Own the full deployment lifecycle for your services: staging and production environments, gradual roll-outs, canary releases, and A/B testing of infrastructure and feature changes. - Continuously monitor and tune and optimize cloud resource usage (networking, storage tiering, and compute/processing), balancing cost, performance, and reliability trade-offs. - Diagnose and resolve complex, cross-service production issues, including intermittent and load-dependent failures in media pipelines. - Partner closely with Product, QA, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate media and storage requirements into pragmatic, production-ready services. - Contribute to architectural decisions for the media platform, including service boundaries, data models, and integration contracts with other teams. - Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and informal knowledge sharing. - Continuously improve team tooling, run books, and processes, including thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted workflows where appropriate. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR MUST-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS - Strong experience as a senior-level backend or backend-leaning full