Top Software Engineer Jobs in Ottawa

Build and improve full-stack features for a legal AI platform. Responsibilities include frontend and backend development, responsive interfaces, data models, APIs, integrations, data pipelines, testing, deployment, observability, debugging, and performance improvements. The engineer will work directly with users, own projects end to end, make architectural tradeoffs, and help shape product direction in an early-stage company.

Design, develop, and deliver software and firmware for datacenter-scale systems. Own complete product lifecycles spanning firmware, embedded Linux, device drivers, microcode, control software, system bring-up, debugging, validation, automation, customer trials, and field support. Collaborate with interdisciplinary and partner engineering teams, contribute through volume production, and support cross-functional groups. The role requires deep expertise in low-level interfaces, management protocols, secure boot, datacenter networking, and complex multiprocessor architectures.

Design, develop, and deliver firmware and software for high-performance datacenter systems. Own projects across embedded firmware, device drivers, microcode, Linux and Yocto builds, control software, system bring-up, debugging, validation, automation, and product lifecycle support. Collaborate with multidisciplinary and partner engineering teams, assist with customer trials and field issues, and contribute from product inception through volume production.

Designs, develops, and delivers firmware and software for high-performance datacenter systems. Owns complete product lifecycles spanning embedded firmware, microcode, device drivers, Linux/Yocto builds, control software, system bring-up, debugging, validation, automation, customer trials, and field support. Collaborates with interdisciplinary and partner engineering teams while supporting products from inception through volume production.

Build and operate backend infrastructure and APIs for stablecoin-based payments, deposits, withdrawals, and transfers. Own projects from system design through production, improve distributed-system performance and reliability, collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Compliance, and contribute to engineering quality through reviews and architectural best practices. The role requires blockchain integration experience and responsible use of generative AI.

Build and scale AI-enabled developer experience, CI/CD, deployment safeguards, observability, and automated response systems. The role focuses on making software delivery autonomous, safe, reliable, and easier for engineering teams to adopt. Responsibilities include architecting enterprise-scale platforms, orchestrating AI agents, reducing technical debt and operational toil, partnering with product engineering teams, and establishing AI-native SDLC workflows. The engineer will also provide technical leadership and turn emerging AI capabilities into production-ready internal platforms.

Build and operate database and storage platform software, including services, APIs, developer tools, migrations, and lifecycle automation. Solve database scaling, performance, reliability, and availability problems across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend services. Partner with engineering teams on schemas and queries, lead technical projects, modernize platforms, participate in incident response, and use AI-assisted tools in development.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for a backend search team building highly available distributed systems, recommendations, and discovery experiences. Partner with product, design, and analytics; establish engineering standards, operational processes, monitoring, testing, and on-call practices. Drive major technical initiatives, mentor engineers, communicate technical direction, and support scalable consumer and merchant experiences.

Leads embedded software development for optical networking products, including feature design, legacy issue resolution, code reviews, documentation, and system performance improvements. Collaborates with validation, integration, hardware, test, documentation, field applications, and customers. Requires expertise in C/C++, embedded Linux, networking protocols, optical networking systems, Agile development, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

Develop and maintain embedded software and firmware for optical networking products. Design features, resolve legacy-product issues, improve performance, maintain documentation, and collaborate with validation, hardware, optical, and test engineering teams. Coach junior engineers, lead code reviews, support customer and field application interactions, and contribute across Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps workflows. The role requires expertise in C/C++, embedded Linux, networking protocols, optical networking systems, and multi-process and multi-threaded design.

Designs and develops embedded software and firmware for optical networking products, resolves legacy product issues, and improves performance with cross-functional engineering teams. The role includes maintaining documentation, coaching junior engineers, leading code reviews, supporting customer and field application interactions, and contributing throughout the Agile and DevOps lifecycle. Requires expertise in C/C++, embedded Linux, networking protocols, optical networking systems, and system-level software functions.

Build and operate database and storage platform software, including services, APIs, and developer tools for provisioning, migrations, upgrades, and lifecycle management. Solve scaling, performance, reliability, and data correctness challenges across databases, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and networking. Partner with engineering teams on schemas and platform adoption, lead technical projects through rollout, participate in on-call response, and use AI-assisted tools in development.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and on-call support. The role also involves technical leadership, roadmap ownership, code quality standards, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

Build and deploy AI-powered solutions for clients by scoping ambiguous problems, designing LLM workflows, integrating data and retrieval systems, and creating scalable production tooling. Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, iterate based on operator feedback, optimize workflows, and support customer deployments. The role requires strong Python and software or ML engineering skills, production deployment experience, communication abilities, customer on-call availability, travel as needed, and hybrid office attendance.

Build production AI harness systems for Kinaxis’s Databricks-based enterprise Data Fabric. Responsibilities include developing agent execution frameworks, integrating LLMs with governed data, implementing tool calling and workflow controls, enforcing multi-tenant isolation, and delivering APIs, SDKs, libraries, templates, and operational runbooks. The role requires distributed-systems engineering, cloud data-platform experience, secure multi-tenant design, and practical expertise in agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, metadata, lineage, and governance.

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Develop and enhance highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant IAM services on Akamai’s Compute Platform. Design resilient software, build tools for seamless deployment and operation, improve IAM features and customer experience, and research emerging technologies. The role requires extensive Linux software development, Python or Java expertise, secure software delivery, IAM knowledge, and experience with enterprise tools including Git, JIRA, and Jenkins.

Design and scale distributed backend microservices for restaurant reservations, guest management, payments, floor management, and table operations. Build integrations, POS synchronization, entitlement and usage-metering services, and asynchronous workflows. Ensure reliability through observability, automated testing, schema design, latency optimization, and resilient distributed systems. Collaborate with global engineering, product, mobile, web, and UX teams while mentoring engineers and leading technical design reviews.

Set technical strategy for backend identity decisioning systems, lead major engineering initiatives, and ensure highly available operations. Partner with product, design, and analytics teams; establish coding, architecture, monitoring, testing, and on-call standards; communicate technical decisions; and mentor engineers. Build and scale distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisions across international markets.

Owns VM and fleet test strategy, hypervisor validation, performance quality gates, and systems-level testing for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like environments, develops automated benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in KVM/QEMU/libvirt, Linux internals, x86 and ARM architectures, performance analysis, statistical testing, and CI/CD tooling.

Develop and test embedded software across the full lifecycle: requirements, architecture, design, implementation, unit/integration tests, verification and validation. Collaborate with hardware and cross-functional teams to bring up cameras, SoCs, sensors and device drivers. Participate in code reviews, mentoring, process improvement and software compliance.

Develop and maintain open-source client code and backend services focused on networking features. Design, test, document, and optimize distributed networking components, improve scalability and stability, support observability and incident response, handle customer escalations, and apply security-first engineering practices. Collaborate asynchronously with engineers, product managers, and UX/UI designers throughout the product lifecycle.

Develop and manage mission-critical infrastructure services for Akamai’s cloud lab platform. Build deployment stacks for test datacenters, design observability and monitoring solutions, improve deployment and configuration performance, and collaborate with engineering, architecture, and site reliability teams. The role requires strong Infrastructure as Code, Python, REST API, container orchestration, development-environment tooling, and relational database experience.

Develop and manage mission-critical infrastructure services for cloud development and testing. Build Python backend services, APIs, automation, virtual machine environments, reservation systems, reporting tools, and resilient test frameworks. Improve reliability, scalability, deployment performance, and observability across physical and virtual infrastructure. Provide technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with global Development and SRE teams.

Design and scale Cohere’s Model Vault backend and inference platform. Lead architecture for authentication, deployments, billing, metering, customer lifecycle, and cloud control-plane services. Build reliable distributed systems with strong guarantees for security, privacy, consistency, isolation, observability, and failure recovery. Drive technically complex initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, production rollout, operations, and iteration at enterprise scale.