Software development jobs in Canada

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Counted Oct 28, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 6,178
Employers: 1,924

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $113,640Across 655 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $56.45Across 220 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $145,627Across 128 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $59.97Across 19 listings
Average starting payCAD / month: $6,118Across 11 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 8%482 listings
Hybrid: 39%2,412 listings
On-site: 53%3,257 listings

Not specified: <1% (27 listings)

Employers hiring include S M Software Solutions Inc (248), Amazon (137), Electronic Arts (71).

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

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Software Engineer
Lockheed Martin
Halifax, NS
- $82,750 to $108,750 CAD / year
- Full-time
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Senior Software Engineer, Scheduling
Toast
Toronto, ON
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IVR Application Developer – Cisco CVP/ Amazon Connect
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Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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Software Engineer, Growth Platforms
Lyft
Toronto, ON
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Software Developer Co-op
GeoSpectrum Technologies Inc.
Dartmouth, NS
- Other
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Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners
Canada
- $200,000 to $275,000 USD / year
- Full-time
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Qualcomm
Markham, ON
- Full-time
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Bolton, ON
- Full-time
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Markham, ON
- Full-time
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Richmond, BC
- Full-time
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Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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S M Software Solutions Inc
Toronto, ON
- Internship
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S M Software Solutions Inc
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S M Software Solutions Inc
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S M Software Solutions Inc
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S M Software Solutions Inc
Toronto, ON
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RQ11678 – Software Developer – ERP / Case Management – Senior
S M Software Solutions Inc
Toronto, ON
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RQ11775 – Software Developer – Senior
S M Software Solutions Inc
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
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RQ11698 – Software Developer – CRM – Senior
S M Software Solutions Inc
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RQ11600 – Software Developer – Full Stack – Senior
S M Software Solutions Inc
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Staff Software Engineer, Quality & Reliability Platform

Remote, Canada

Remote

Full-time

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Job details

Job type: Full-time
Workplace: Remote
Posting language: English
Posted: Aug 3, 2026

Original job description

BuildOps is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set and drive our company-wide technical strategy for building, shipping, and operating reliable software.

This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for an engineer who sees quality and reliability as properties of the entire system - not as a final testing phase or the responsibility of a separate team. You will work across engineering, product, infrastructure, and customer-facing organizations to identify systemic risks, establish architectural standards, and create platform capabilities that make safe, dependable delivery the default.

You will influence how teams design systems, validate changes, observe production behavior, manage risk, and learn from failures. Your work will span architecture, developer tooling, release safety, observability, resilience, testability, and engineering practices. The specific solutions will evolve as you identify the highest-leverage opportunities.

Product engineering teams at BuildOps own the quality and testing of their features. Your role is not to test their work for them. You will establish the technical direction, paved roads, systems, and standards that enable every team to deliver reliable software with greater confidence and speed.

What You Will Do

Define and drive BuildOps' technical strategy for engineering quality, production reliability, and safe software delivery.
Identify systemic sources of customer-impacting failures and lead cross-team initiatives that address root causes rather than individual symptoms.
Establish architectural principles, engineering standards, and paved roads that make reliable system design and safe delivery easier by default.
Partner with engineering teams during system and product design to improve resilience, operability, testability, and failure isolation before implementation begins.
Build or guide the development of shared platform capabilities for release safety, automated validation, production feedback, test data, environment management, and developer self-service.
Advance BuildOps' observability strategy so teams can understand system behavior, detect regressions quickly, diagnose failures, and make informed reliability investments.
Improve how we validate interactions across services, data boundaries, financial workflows, and other business-critical systems.
Define meaningful measures of quality and reliability, then use them to identify priorities and demonstrate improvements in customer and engineering outcomes.
Lead technical programs that span multiple teams and organizations, aligning stakeholders and driving decisions without relying on direct authority.
Mentor engineers and technical leaders, raising the organization's ability to reason about risk, reliability, and quality throughout the software lifecycle.
Evaluate BuildOps' existing practices and technology objectively, evolving or replacing them when they no longer meet our needs.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role is measured by durable improvements in outcomes, not by the number of alerts, dashboards, tests, or frameworks created. Examples include:

Fewer customer-impacting defects and recurring classes of production failures.
Greater release confidence and a lower change-failure rate.
Faster detection, diagnosis, and recovery when failures occur.
Shorter, more reliable feedback loops for engineers making changes.
Clearer ownership and better visibility into the health of critical systems and workflows.
Increased engineering velocity without sacrificing safety or reliability.
Broad adoption of shared practices and platform capabilities without creating a centralized quality bottleneck.

What We Look For

Significant software engineering experience, including operating at Staff or equivalent scope on ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems.
A track record of leading multi-team initiatives that improved production reliability, software delivery, platform capabilities, or engineering effectiveness.
Strong systems thinking and the ability to connect architecture, data integrity, operational behavior, developer workflows, and customer impact.
Experience designing and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment such as AWS.
Strong software design and programming skills in TypeScript, Java, or another relevant language.
Experience with several of the following: observability, resilience engineering, CI/CD, release safety, automated validation, developer platforms, testability, performance engineering, or incident learning.
The ability to define useful engineering measures while avoiding metrics that reward activity without improving outcomes.
Demonstrated success influencing architecture and engineering practices across teams that do not report to you.
Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical risks, tradeoffs, and strategy to engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
A practical approach that balances long-term direction with incremental improvements that deliver value quickly.

Who You Are

You think in systems and look for leverage across organizational and technical boundaries.
You are energized by ambiguous problems whose solutions require architecture, implementation, influence, and organizational change.
You challenge assumptions and distinguish underlying causes from visible symptoms.
You enable teams rather than becoming a gatekeeper or permanent dependency.
You are comfortable moving between long-term technical strategy and hands-on implementation when necessary.
You build credibility through sound judgment, clear communication, and measurable results.
You care deeply about the experience of both our customers and the engineers building for them.

Compensation:

$172,000 - $229,000 base salary + annual bonus + meaningful equity

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Responsibilities

Define and drive the company-wide technical strategy for engineering quality, production reliability, and safe software delivery. Lead cross-team initiatives to identify systemic risks and establish architectural standards that improve resilience and operability.

Requirements

Requires significant software engineering experience at a Staff level with a track record of leading multi-team initiatives. Must possess strong systems thinking skills and experience designing distributed systems in cloud environments like AWS.

Skills

Software engineering
Systems thinking
Distributed systems
AWS
TypeScript
Java
Observability
Resilience engineering
CI/CD
Release safety
Automated validation
Developer platforms
Testability
Performance engineering
Incident learning
Technical strategy

Benefits

Annual bonus
Meaningful equity

Visa sponsorship

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Keywords

Staff Software Engineer
Quality & Reliability
BuildOps
Technical Strategy
Systems Thinking
Distributed Systems
AWS
TypeScript
Java
Observability
Resilience Engineering
CI/CD
Release Safety
Automated Validation
Developer Platforms
Testability
Performance Engineering
Incident Learning
Architecture
Engineering Practices
Cloud Computing
Software Lifecycle
Risk Management
Data Integrity
Operational Behavior

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