Software development jobs in Canada

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Counted Oct 3, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 3,969
Employers: 1,449

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $114,502Across 457 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $140,899Across 111 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $52.59Across 74 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 10%392 listings
Hybrid: 41%1,627 listings
On-site: 48%1,917 listings

Not specified: 1% (33 listings)

Employers hiring include Amazon (107), Genetec (62), Electronic Arts (47).

Sources & calculation notes

These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

Software development jobs in Canada

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Senior Software Engineer, Observability
Temporal Technologies
Canada
- Full-time
We have an opening for a Senior Software Engineer on our Infrastructure Team, with specific focus on Observability - both internal and customer-facing. This is an opportunity to join a…
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Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations (AI Agent Optimization)
Temporal Technologies
Canada
- Full-time
We have an opening to hire a Staff Software Engineer - Agent Optimization
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Software Governance Senior Associate
Ciena
Ottawa, ON
- $69,300 to $110,700 CAD / year
- Full-time
…guided by innovation, integrity, and collaboration. Through development opportunities, meaningful work, and flexibility, Ciena supports growth and well-being - on and off the job. Connect…
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Calgary, AB
- Full-time
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Software Engineer III
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Montreal, QC
- Full-time
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Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Canada
- Volunteer
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Software Engineering Intern - Summer 2027
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Remote, Canada
- $50 CAD / hour
- Internship
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Väderstad AB
Regina, SK
- Full-time
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Toronto, ON
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- Full-time
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- Full-time
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Remote, Canada
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- Contract
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Canada
- Full-time
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- Contract
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- Contract
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- Full-time
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BlueCat

Staff Software Engineer - Networking & DNS Infrastructure

Toronto, ON, Canada

$160,000 - $180,000 a year · Full-time

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Job details

Pay: $160,000 - $180,000 a year
Job type: Full-time
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 15, 2026

Original job description

We're BlueCat - a Great Place to Work for good reason. Our team solves critical network challenges for some of the world's largest organizations. In simple terms, we manage the systems that keep networks running smoothly, securely, and reliably - the backbone infrastructure that powers digital transformation for enterprises globally. Our Intelligent Network Operations platform delivers and enables AI-driven agentic ops at scale, automating and simplifying how companies manage, secure, and optimize their networks.

But what makes us different is how we work: we believe great work happens in an environment where you're trusted, heard, and supported. With teams globally, we're building a workplace culture that values collaboration and integrity as much as innovation. If you're looking to advance your career with a company that invests in its people, this is it.

About the role:

We're looking for a systems engineer to build and operate high-throughput, low-latency network infrastructure written in Rust. You'll work on the core data plane of a production DNS platform. This service that handles large query volumes with tight latency budgets, strong reliability guarantees. It's also a role where you stay close to the people who use what you build, translating real customer problems into the right technical solution.

What you'll do:

• Design and implement components of a high-performance DNS engine: resolvers, forwarders, caching layers, and request-processing pipelines.
• Implement and harden DNS protocol features across transports: UDP/TCP, DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, DNSSEC, EDNS Client Subnet, and related standards.
• Build features for traffic management and reliability: global server load balancing, health-checking, policy evaluation, response rewriting, and threat/security filtering.
• Profile and optimize hot paths: memory allocation, data structures (tries, caches), connection pooling and multiplexing and back changes with benchmarks.
• Integrate the data plane with control-plane services: configuration updates across distributed deployed nodes.
• Own observability for your components: metrics, structured logging/tracing, and diagnostics that make production behavior legible.
• Write thorough unit, integration, and component tests; keep the build green and the codebase clean (linting, formatting, dependency hygiene, security advisories).

Working with customers and product
• Listen directly to customers: through support escalations, field reports, and conversations to understand the problem behind the request, not just the feature they asked for.
• Partner with product management to turn customer pain points into well-scoped features, and help shape the roadmap by grounding it in what's technically feasible and where the real leverage is.
• Reproduce and diagnose customer-reported issues in production traffic patterns, then design fixes that address the root cause rather than the symptom.

What we're looking for:

• Strong systems programming experience in Rust, including async programming with tokio
• Solid grasp of networking fundamentals: TCP/UDP, TLS, HTTP, and ideally DNS or another wire protocol.
• Experience writing performance-sensitive concurrent code, and the instinct to measure before and after with benchmarks and profiling.
• A test-first, correctness-oriented mindset - you care about edge cases, graceful shutdown, backpressure, and deterministic behavior under concurrency.
• Comfort working across a large workspace: crates/modules, shared libraries, plugin boundaries, and CI.
• Strong communication skills and genuine customer empathy: you can talk to non-engineers, ask the right questions, and translate fuzzy problems into concrete engineering work.

Nice to have:

• Open source work in the Rust/tokio ecosystem a major plus
• DNS internals (record types, SOA/TTL handling, DNSSEC, ECS, dnstap).
• Prometheus metrics, tracing, and production observability practices.
• Protobuf/gRPC, service discovery, and control-plane/data-plane architectures.
• Allocator tuning (jemalloc/mimalloc), lock-free/atomic programming, and low-level performance work.
• Experience upgrading language toolchains and managing dependency/security posture over time.
• Experience working directly with customers or in a product-partnered engineering role.

Impact:

Your work directly affects the performance, resilience, and security of a service that sits on the critical path for every request that depends on it. Small improvements in latency, memory, or correctness matter at scale, and because you stay close to customers, you'll see those improvements land as real problems solved.

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$160,000 - $180,000 a year

The annual salary range for this position is 160.000 – 180.000 CAD, plus participation in a discretionary bonus plan. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

The role is for an existing vacancy.

If you share our enthusiasm for the future of our company and are eager to contribute to our vibrant workplace, we look forward to receiving your application! Our comprehensive benefits encompass your health, financial well-being, and overall wellness, and we are committed to providing an exceptional work environment, enriching employee programs, and fostering a remarkable company culture. At our core, we champion values such as transparency, curiosity, respect, and above all, the pursuit of enjoyment.

In addition, we offer a range of appealing perks, including:

A Professional Development Budget

Dedicated Wellness Days and Wellness Week

A Lifestyle Spending Account

An Employee Recognition Program

Join us in shaping the future of our organization, where your talent and dedication can truly thrive. We invite you to apply and become a valuable member of our team!

BlueCat is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities. BlueCat will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants.

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Responsibilities

Design and implement high-performance DNS engine components including resolvers, forwarders, and caching layers. Collaborate with product management to translate customer pain points into technical solutions while maintaining observability and reliability.

Requirements

Requires strong systems programming experience in Rust and a solid grasp of networking fundamentals like TCP/UDP, TLS, and DNS. Candidates must demonstrate a test-first mindset and the ability to optimize performance-sensitive concurrent code.

Skills

Rust
Systems Programming
DNS
Networking
Tokio
TCP/UDP
TLS
HTTP
Concurrency
Performance Profiling
Data Structures
Observability
Distributed Systems
Load Balancing
DNSSEC
API Design

Benefits

Professional Development Budget
Dedicated Wellness Days
Wellness Week
Lifestyle Spending Account
Employee Recognition Program
Health Benefits

Visa sponsorship

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Keywords

Rust
DNS
Networking
Systems Engineering
Tokio
Data Plane
Control Plane
Latency
Concurrency
Load Balancing
DNSSEC
Prometheus
gRPC
Protobuf
Observability
Infrastructure
Performance Tuning
CI/CD
Distributed Systems
Software Development
Backpressure
Memory Management
Tries
Caching
Security Filtering
Reliability
Benchmarking
Diagnostic Tools
Enterprise Software
Cloud Infrastructure

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