Top Software Engineer Jobs in Ottawa

Own full-stack product features from technical scoping through deployment and post-launch iteration. Design schemas, APIs, and business logic; build user-facing applications across frontend, backend, and databases; collaborate with ML researchers, product, design, and engineering; incorporate user feedback; and improve development, testing, and deployment practices.

Develop and maintain manual and automated integration, functional, load, and performance tests for Akamai cloud APIs and identity services. Build Python automation frameworks, contribute to CI/CD infrastructure, review test automation, validate system scalability and security, and support release readiness. Collaborate with globally distributed developers, SDET engineers, architects, and program managers while testing Kubernetes-based cloud applications.

Investigate and modify browser engine subsystems through hands-on experimentation, prototyping, instrumentation, profiling, and performance analysis. Build capabilities supporting reliable programmatic web interaction while evaluating correctness, compatibility, and efficiency. The role requires deep browser internals expertise, strong C++ or Rust proficiency, systems debugging experience, and understanding of web platform behavior. Engineers will collaborate with technical leadership, use AI-assisted development tools, and document reproducible results, including unsuccessful experiments.

Develop and ship autonomy software for outdoor, production robots across perception, localization, state estimation, motion planning, and controls. Build fleet coordination, simulation and CI, logging/telemetry pipelines, and operator tools. Validate on real hardware, support field deployments, and ensure software degrades gracefully at remote sites.

Lead development of a massively distributed edge compute platform. Design fault-tolerant systems, external APIs, high-throughput traffic routing, and Kubernetes-based resource management. Establish architecture standards, reliability metrics, security practices, and technical governance. Collaborate with AI/ML, hardware, networking, and security teams; communicate risks to executives; manage customer requirements; review code; and mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices.

Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed scanning services in Python and Go. Own systems design, implementation, deployment, scalability, reliability, observability, and production support for internet-wide and customer-specific security scans. Collaborate with security, product, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver scanning and threat-intelligence capabilities, improve architecture and performance, and mentor engineers.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain critical software supporting scientific experiments, instruments, data systems, and infrastructure. Translate ambiguous research needs into reliable software milestones, develop integrations and high-volume data workflows, solve concurrency and performance issues, and improve testing, observability, and release practices. The role also includes architecture decisions, code review, mentoring, technical leadership, and collaboration with scientists and engineers.

Principal Software Engineer leading architecture and implementation of resilient, low-latency distributed systems for the RunMyJobs platform. Responsibilities include technical strategy, full-stack development, AI-assisted software development, CI/CD and observability, code and design reviews, quality improvement, troubleshooting, and mentoring. The role requires expertise in Java, microservices, cloud platforms, containers, frontend technologies, databases, automated testing, and AI developer tools, with broad technical ownership but no direct people management.

Designs, builds, and improves Mural’s Canvas platform, including real-time collaboration, shared document editing, spatial interactions, rendering performance, asset management, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities. Owns initiatives from problem definition through measurement, designs scalable and reliable systems, optimizes performance, and contributes to technical reviews, mentoring, documentation, and engineering practices. Partners with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver maintainable, high-quality editor experiences.

Own the architecture and evolution of a large-scale entity data platform. Design reliable systems for vendor data ingestion, entity resolution, matching, generation, and downstream delivery. Improve data correctness, freshness, traceability, observability, and reliability using AI-assisted and deterministic approaches. Lead integrations, incident response, technical standards, architecture decisions, mentoring, and collaboration with product and downstream teams.

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer responsible for building and owning scalable cybersecurity product experiences across front-end and back-end systems. The role uses TypeScript, Golang, React, Node.js, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, databases, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include architecture, performance optimization, security, mentoring engineers, leading projects, Agile planning, and adopting AI-assisted development tools.

Designs, develops, deploys, tests, and reviews software applications, features, and defect fixes. Collaborates with team leaders and users to support a product roadmap, analyze requirements, document software, provide developer-level support, and learn existing codebases. The role also involves participating in planning meetings, conferences, and occasional team travel.

Lead international integration engineering by architecting scalable distributed systems and an AI-powered development harness for partner integrations. Guide technical strategy, mentor engineers, review architecture and code, establish development and deployment best practices, and deliver production solutions. Collaborate with product, design, QA, UX, and partner engineering teams while using Java, Kotlin, event-driven messaging, and cloud technologies.

Build and operate critical software for power-campus design, construction, simulation, optimization, equipment integration, and energy management. Own technical areas, shape roadmaps, make architectural decisions, debug production systems, establish data models and interfaces, improve testing and observability, and mentor engineers. The role collaborates across power systems, construction, robotics, and company leadership to deliver reliable software interacting with physical infrastructure.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs for shared platform capabilities. Own features end to end, create technical designs, collaborate with Product and Experience teams, and contribute to a product-driven roadmap. The role requires strong backend engineering, Go proficiency or rapid ramp-up ability, API design experience, cloud-native architecture knowledge, and the ability to work independently in a remote startup environment.

Design and build the core vCluster Platform using Go and deep Kubernetes expertise. Own backend features end to end, from technical design through release, while solving complex systems architecture challenges involving networking, storage, isolation, and resource sharing. Contribute to open-source projects and the Kubernetes community, operate autonomously in a high-growth startup, and help define scalable Kubernetes multi-tenancy solutions.

Design and develop the backend of the vCluster Platform using Go and deep Kubernetes expertise. Own features end to end, from technical design through release, while solving complex systems and multi-tenancy challenges. Contribute to open-source projects and Kubernetes community initiatives, build scalable isolation and resource-sharing solutions, and operate autonomously in a fast-growing startup environment.

Own the Linux user-mode runtime, driver, and HAL interfaces for a Fabric accelerator. Responsibilities include runtime library design, compiler and kernel-driver integration, memory and resource management, ML framework backends, pre-silicon bring-up using simulation, emulation, QEMU, and FPGAs, and comprehensive runtime testing. Collaborate across compiler, architecture, verification, and kernel teams to support first-silicon deployment.

Own development of a Linux kernel-mode driver for a custom Fabric accelerator, including memory management, SMMU/IOMMU integration, MMIO, interrupts, power management, firmware, and user-space interfaces. Lead pre-silicon enablement using QEMU, simulation, emulation, and FPGA platforms; manage Linux boot and first-silicon bring-up. Debug complex hardware and kernel issues, establish automated testing, and collaborate with architecture, verification, compiler, and hardware teams.

Develop and maintain embedded software for autonomous precision aerial delivery and recovery systems. Responsibilities include writing C/C++ code, unit testing, guidance, navigation and control algorithm development, simulation, physical testing, debugging, fault-tolerant design, requirements documentation, safety-critical verification, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also mentors junior engineers and drives continuous improvements to embedded systems and development processes.

Build and maintain scalable financial products in a cross-functional agile team. Responsibilities include writing tested code, solving cross-system challenges, owning initiatives from definition through delivery, creating technical plans and documentation, supporting production monitoring, improving performance and observability, collaborating across teams, and mentoring engineers. The role requires backend development with Python and Django, frontend development with React and TypeScript, financial API integrations, data modeling, staged rollouts, and occasional after-hours on-call support.

Develop and maintain secure client/server enterprise applications, appliance operating systems, release pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include coding, testing, troubleshooting, patching, packaging, signing, and releasing software for on-premises and cloud deployments. The role collaborates with engineering, QA, support, and customers while managing AWS infrastructure, databases, security controls, documentation, and Agile development practices.

Develop and test embedded software across the full software development lifecycle. Design architectures, algorithms, drivers, and features for cameras, SoCs, sensors, and chipsets. Collaborate with hardware, mechanical, product, software, and systems engineering teams. Perform debugging, verification, validation, code reviews, planning, compliance activities, and process improvements. Provide technical guidance to junior team members and support recruiting activities.

Join the Platform squad to build and maintain a Typescript-based serverless microservices platform on AWS. Improve cloud availability, security, CI/CD, public APIs, data pipelines, internal DevOps libraries, and developer tooling while collaborating across product and engineering teams.

Develop and verify Java software components for Canadian Army ISTAR capabilities within an integrated tactical network. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, code reviews, configuration management, defect resolution, and support for customer field trials. The role also coordinates feature development and mentors junior developers while working in an Agile, multidisciplinary team.