Software engineer jobs in Canada

Find software engineer jobs across Canada. Choose a place, compare current openings and read the employer’s requirements.

Counted Oct 2, 2026

Hiring at a glance

View jobs

Open jobs: 2,160
Employers: 886

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payCAD / year: $126,410Across 274 listings
Average starting payUSD / year: $152,425Across 88 listings
Average starting payCAD / hour: $54.52Across 33 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 12%250 listings
Hybrid: 42%897 listings
On-site: 46%983 listings

Not specified: 1% (30 listings)

Employers hiring include Amazon (92), Okta (45), Arista Networks (38).

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 engineer jobs in Canada

Email me new jobs Save this search

Added 24 days ago
Lead Software Engineer(DevOps)
Mastercard
Vancouver, BC
Full-time
Added 29 days ago
Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure
Planet
Canada
Added 20 days ago
Staff Software Engineer (Cloud CICD Platforms)
Scotiabank
Toronto, ON
The Staff Software Engineer position leads and oversees a key portfolio within the Cloud and Platform Engineering Group, ensuring business strategies, p
Added 1 month ago
Backend Engineer - Real-Time Sports Data (Go / ClickHouse / AI-Native)
Betstamp
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 1 month ago
Staff Software Engineer
Verily
Toronto, ON · Waterloo, ON
Full-time
Added 1 month ago
Senior Software Engineer (Oracle Fusion)
EBizCharge
Canada
Full-time
Added 1 month ago
Software Engineer (Fraud & Risk)
Trulioo
Remote, Canada
$110,000 to $135,000 CAD / year
Full-time · Remote
Added 29 days ago
Systems Architect – Coherent Optical Pluggable
Nokia
Canada
Full-time
Added 29 days ago
Senior Software Engineer
Fleetworthy
Edmonton, AB
Added 1 month ago
Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Virtualization
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Remote, Canada
$137,300 to $181,890 USD / year
Full-time · Remote
…vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the…
Added 1 month ago
Lead Software Engineer - EA SPORTS™ NHL
EA SPORTS
Vancouver, BC
Full-time
Added 1 month ago
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Manulife
Toronto, ON
Full-time
…operations teams interact across digital channels. As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will build and enhance intelligent customer experiences powered by conversational AI, cloud…
Added 1 month ago
Embedded Software Designer
Umano Medical
Levis, QC
Full-time
Added 1 month ago
Senior Software Engineer Real Assets, Alternative Investments Technology
CPP Investments | Investissements RPC
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 1 month ago
Senior Software Engineer- Ruby on Rails
PosiTrace
Vancouver, BC
$120,000 CAD / year
Full-time
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Ruby on Rails to help us evolve and scale the technology behind our grow
Added 1 month ago
Embedded Software Designer
Umano Medical
Quebec, QC
Full-time
Added 29 days ago
Senior Software Engineer
Fleet Space Technologies
Toronto, ON
Fleet Space is building the software platform behind ExoSphere, our end to end mineral exploration solution powered by space and AI. The platform brings together geophysical survey results,…
Added 1 month ago
Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack
Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Added 21 days ago
Controls Systems Software Designer - Robot
ATS Automation
Cambridge, ON
Added 1 month ago
Software Engineer II
Diligent Corporation
Vancouver, BC
As a Software Engineer II at Diligent, you’ll take on a hands-on technical role in building secure, scalable, and high-performing serverless microservices using TypeScript on AWS. You’ll…
Added 4 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Genius AI
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
Added 1 month ago
Software Engineer - All Levels
Genius AI
Remote, Canada
Full-time · Remote
Added 1 month ago
Associate Software Engineer (Winter 2027)
AltaML
Calgary, AB · Edmonton, AB · Toronto, ON
Internship
Added 1 month ago
Senior Control Systems Software Designer
ATS Corporation
Cambridge, ON
$42.31 to $58.17 CAD / hour
Full-time
Added 1 month ago
IT Software Engineer - Microsoft Tools Team
Nelnet
Mississauga, ON · CAN - MISSISSAUGA
Full-time

Nokia

Systems Architect – Coherent Optical Pluggable

Canada

Job type: Full-time
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 3, 2026

Apply About employer

Applications open in a new tab.

Original job description

In an increasingly connected world, the pandemic has highlighted just how essential telecom networks are to keeping society running. The Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to connectivity, pushing the boundaries to deliver more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise

NILightpath

Join Optical Networks division, where innovation meets scale in the AI-driven data center era. With the recent acquisition of Infinera, we’ve united two industry leaders to create an optical networking powerhouse - combining cutting-edge technology with proven leadership to redefine the future of connectivity.

As part of Nokia’s Optical Architecture group, you will have a unique opportunity to lead the design and architecture of novel coherent optical pluggable. You will be responsible for architecting and implementing new coherent optical portfolio in collaboration with our Systems Architecture, ASIC designer and Hardware and Software Development teams.

Develop innovative, competitive product architectures and requirements for packet-optical telecommunications products based on understanding of business requirements, use cases and applicable industry standards (like OIF, ITU, IEEE). Consider trade-off between cost, function, capacity, and performance. The products to develop include coherent optical pluggable to be introduce both in Nokia platform as well as another host

Responsibilities

· Work cooperatively with Product Line Management to define and clarify system & product concepts, features & requirements, including customer use cases and experience expectations.

· Translate the product requirements into system architectural specifications and requirements.

· Work closely with a team of architects and ASIC designers, optical front-end designers as well as HW/SW developers in establishing the SW architectural specifications.

· Lead the cross-functional feature teams to facilitate & build consensus on product architecture and technical concepts for product implementation.

· Engage with SW development teams to provide architecture know-how to the teams and maintain alignment of the implementation with the architecture.

· Documentation of product architecture, requirements and concepts in clear, concise and consistent specifications.

· Investigate new feature requests and customer requirements; propose feature solutions and assess feasibility.

· Work collaboratively with the product documentation team to describe product features and operational concepts in customer documentation.

Qualifications

· Broad systems knowledge garnered by years of experience specifying and/or leading architectural specifications across multi-disciplines

· Ability to think big-picture and deliver high quality requirements/architecture specifications, geared towards building robust, reliable and the best user experience solutions for the end-to-end integrated system

· Experience defining requirements in the areas of Fault Management, Performance Management, Configuration Management, Service Provisioning and Control Plane features of multi-layer networking products (especially for the L0 and L1 layers)

· Experience with Optical Networking Technologies and Standards including OTN, Ethernet, Encryption capability such as MACSEC

· Familiarity with CMIS, C-CMIS, OIF specification.

· Experience designing and validating link-level control algorithms and optical performance monitoring to optimize end-to-end optical performance.

· Excellent communication and presentation skills

Usage of modern AI tool such as Cursor, AI-SDLC

· Highly motivated team player adept at cross-functional, cross-cultural and international teamwork

· Advanced graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunication or equivalent education.

· Ph.D. + minimum 8 years of relevant work experience

· M.Sc. + minimum 12 years of relevant work experience in optical transport systems or related fields in telecommunications.

Advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.

Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. With expertise across fixed, mobile and transport networks, powered by the innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we’re advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.

Learn more about life at Nokia.

Our recruitment process

We act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Our employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

If you’re interested in this role but don’t meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enrich our teams, and you may be just the right candidate for this or another opportunity.

The length of the recruitment process may vary depending on the specific role's requirements. We strive to ensure a smooth and inclusive experience for all candidates. Discover more about the recruitment process at Nokia.

Apply About employer

More about this job

Responsibilities

The Systems Architect will lead the design and architecture of novel coherent optical pluggable products in collaboration with cross-functional teams. They are responsible for translating product requirements into technical specifications and ensuring alignment across hardware, software, and ASIC development teams.

Requirements

Candidates must possess an advanced graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Telecommunications with at least 8 to 12 years of relevant experience. A strong background in optical networking technologies, industry standards, and multi-layer networking product architecture is required.

Skills

Systems Architecture
Coherent Optical Pluggable
ASIC Design
OTN
Ethernet
MACSEC
CMIS
C-CMIS
OIF Standards
Fault Management
Performance Management
Configuration Management
Service Provisioning
Control Plane
Optical Performance Monitoring

Visa sponsorship

Not detected in the job text

Keywords

Systems Architect
Coherent Optical
Pluggable
Telecommunications
Nokia
Infinera
ASIC
Packet-optical
OIF
ITU
IEEE
OTN
Ethernet
MACSEC
CMIS
C-CMIS
Fault Management
Performance Management
Configuration Management
Service Provisioning
Control Plane
Optical Transport
AI-SDLC
Cursor
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Network Infrastructure
Data Center
Hardware Development
Software Development

Report this job