Top Engineering Jobs in Ottawa

Develop and own scalable AI-enabled software and data engineering solutions for RAN reliability and customer deployments. Build ingestion and processing pipelines, AI-ready datasets, and secure integrations into Git, Gerrit, CI/CD, testing, and development workflows. Transform prototypes into maintainable products while ensuring data quality, traceability, access control, monitoring, and vulnerability management. Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, architects, and product stakeholders, provide mentorship, and promote responsible AI-assisted development.

Leads systems engineering support for spaceborne optical instruments and payloads. Responsibilities include requirements management, verification planning, technical baseline control, design reviews, performance analysis, integration and environmental testing, interface documentation, anomaly investigations, and mission support. The role collaborates across optical, mechanical, electrical, software, and operations teams, mentors engineers, and supports customer and supplier interactions.

Build and operate full-stack compliance platforms for transaction search, entity labeling, ingestion, and workflow automation. Responsibilities include designing microservices and event-driven systems, writing tested code, improving sensitive financial data quality, building self-service tools and high-volume pipelines, partnering with Compliance and Risk teams, and participating in on-call operations. The role also involves using AI-powered development tools, reviewing code, and supporting engineering standards.

Leads GitLab’s Database Excellence organization, setting strategy for PostgreSQL and other application datastores. Owns database reliability, capacity, availability, sustainability, infrastructure costs, and platform standardization. Manages three Engineering Managers, develops technical leaders, oversees hiring and organization design, establishes objectives and KPIs, manages budgets, partners cross-functionally on platform investments, and serves as an escalation point for database incidents and operational processes.

Build privacy-focused services and infrastructure that support consumer privacy rights across Block. Collaborate with engineering, security, platform, and legal teams to embed privacy solutions, define future privacy technology, mentor engineers, review implementations, and maintain monitoring and system stability. The role involves developing scalable, testable software and creating architectures and processes addressing data governance, data flows, access control, security, and privacy risks.

Build internal services and infrastructure that support privacy initiatives and consumer privacy rights. Collaborate with engineering, security, platform, and legal teams to integrate privacy technologies, define privacy architecture, mentor engineers, review implementations, and maintain reliable privacy solutions. The role focuses on responsible data use, governance, data flows, access controls, and reducing privacy risk across Block’s engineering ecosystem.

Provide technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, a managed single-tenant SaaS platform. Lead architecture and transformation across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, automation, and platform integrations. Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, establish reusable platform patterns, strengthen service ownership, and guide cross-team technical decisions. Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence across the organization.

Leads and develops the Canadian sales engineering organization, recruiting and mentoring team members while scaling discovery, technical qualification, and proof-of-concept processes. Partners with sales leaders, product management, engineering, customers, and channel partners to design and present value-based cybersecurity solutions, support strategic deals, and drive revenue growth across Zscaler’s core and Gen AI portfolio.

Leads Samsara’s globally distributed Core Infrastructure team, owning strategy and roadmaps across compute, networking, storage, cloud systems, reliability, and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include developing engineers, improving capacity management and observability, strengthening incident response and disaster recovery, building automation and self-service infrastructure, and applying AI-enabled tools to reduce toil. The role requires significant software engineering and people-management experience, strong technical judgment, and expertise in large-scale cloud or distributed platforms.

Build and lead a globally distributed DevOps engineering team responsible for reliable platform capabilities and repository experiences. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; guide architecture, security, performance, and maintainability; align delivery with product and design; improve agile workflows and execution; integrate AI-assisted tooling; and support operational health, reliability, and incident management.

Lead and manage MongoDB’s Storage Execution team, owning the roadmap for durability, availability, performance, transactions, storage architecture, index operations, and developer productivity. Partner with adjacent engineering and cloud teams, manage customer escalations, drive cross-team initiatives, improve engineering processes, and develop engineers through hiring, coaching, and performance management.

Designs acoustic-system interfaces and operator documentation, analyzes acoustic and post-mission data, directs operational testing, develops training and test scenarios, and supports system requirements, integration, formal testing, proposals, demonstrations, and customer engagement. The role focuses on underwater acoustics and anti-submarine warfare, including harbour and sea acceptance testing, acoustic system qualification, and international business-development travel.

Serves as an underwater acoustics subject matter expert supporting airborne and naval anti-submarine warfare systems. Responsibilities include acoustic and post-mission analysis, operator interface and manual development, operational testing, acceptance testing, operator training, test scenario development, requirements support, system integration, customer liaison, demonstrations, and proposal and business development activities. Domestic and international travel is required.

Leads quality assurance for aerospace and defense engineering and software projects. Responsibilities include developing QA plans, conducting audits, managing nonconformances and corrective actions, supporting configuration and design reviews, monitoring testing, leading investigations and continuous improvement, analyzing quality data, and reporting metrics. The role interfaces with government and customer quality authorities and ensures compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, contractual, and airworthiness standards.

Lead the development, architecture, integration, testing, validation, and technical documentation of vehicle-mounted communications systems. Conduct trade studies, manage requirements and configuration, coordinate laboratory and prototype vehicle testing, ensure compliance with military and quality standards, and support inspections, retrofits, field modifications, and customer engagements. Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams.

The Quality Engineering Specialist leads quality assurance for engineering and software development projects in regulated aerospace and defense environments. Responsibilities include creating QA plans, conducting audits, managing non-conformances and corrective actions, supporting configuration and design reviews, monitoring testing, facilitating investigations, analyzing quality data, reporting metrics, and ensuring compliance with AS9100, ISO 9001, contractual, and airworthiness standards.

Provides technical leadership for vehicle-level communications systems, including requirements, architecture, interfaces, trade studies, integration, testing, validation, and technical documentation. Leads multidisciplinary engineering activities, mentors junior staff, coordinates lab resources, manages traceability and configuration, ensures compliance with military and quality standards, and supports vehicle inspections, retrofits, field modifications, and customer engagements.

Leads and develops a team of IAM engineers, providing technical direction for backend architecture, distributed systems, engineering standards, and full project delivery. Partners with product, QA, SRE, and senior leadership to deliver customer-facing IAM platforms. Responsibilities include mentoring, hiring, onboarding, performance management, requirements clarification, execution oversight, and career development. Requires extensive engineering experience, Python knowledge, IAM expertise, distributed systems experience, Agile and SDLC understanding, and prior leadership experience.

Supports digital integrated circuit development for high-speed data communications products. Responsibilities include digital circuit design, layout, simulation, verification, synthesis, DFT insertion, and timing closure using CAD tools. The intern will work with experienced designers, contribute to project milestones, and gain exposure to digital development processes including definition, implementation, and verification.

Designs and manages CI/CD pipelines, cloud-agnostic infrastructure, containerized applications, monitoring, logging, and alerting across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. Builds infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes; automates provisioning and configuration; troubleshoots performance and reliability issues; applies security hardening and compliance measures; writes deployment scripts and automated tests; and evaluates tools supporting DevOps transformation.

Designs and manages CI/CD pipelines, cloud-agnostic infrastructure, containerized applications, monitoring systems, and automated deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The role involves Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, scripting, infrastructure troubleshooting, security hardening, network and virtualization management, test automation, and evaluating DevOps tools. This hybrid position requires collaboration with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle and eligibility for Canadian government security clearance.

Lead manufacturing engineering for a general-purpose robot from engineering builds through pilot and volume production. Design production processes, stations, fixtures, tooling, testing, documentation, capacity plans, and quality gates. Transfer processes to contract manufacturing partners, build and lead engineering and technician teams, manage training and certification, and establish traceability and production metrics. Ensure yield, quality, cost, and schedule performance through data-driven continuous improvement.

Leads product marketing for NVIDIA’s computational engineering solutions, defining launch strategy, positioning, messaging, go-to-market plans, and enablement assets. Aligns product, sales, marketing, partners, customers, public relations, and engineering teams to drive adoption and revenue. Translates complex CAE, semiconductor, EDA, and AI-Physics technologies into compelling narratives through presentations, blogs, whitepapers, webinars, demos, and customer materials.

Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for Fellow’s desktop, mobile, botless recording, and real-time media platforms. Manage and develop engineers while remaining hands-on with production code, architecture, incident response, and technical direction. Improve reliability, observability, and operational excellence; partner cross-functionally on priorities; and advance AI-assisted development practices. The role includes shaping future operating-system integrations, mobile capabilities, recording environments, and on-device intelligence.

Leads 1Password’s analytics engineering function, owning data architecture, roadmap, modeling, semantic layers, BI tooling, pipelines, governance, testing, documentation, and data quality. Manages and develops analytics engineers, establishes technical standards, reviews complex dbt and SQL work, optimizes warehouse performance, and partners with senior leaders across Finance, Marketing, Product, Analytics, and Data Engineering. Builds trusted data foundations supporting company-wide decisions, AI initiatives, and generative BI.