Staff Software Engineer

1 week ago

Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area, Canada TekRek Full time $170,000 - $227,000 per year

Staff Software Engineer — Backend ($170,000 – $227,000 CAD)

About the Company

We're partnered with a
global leader in data + AI infrastructure
powering mission-critical analytics, LLM workflows, and intelligent applications at scale.

The Opportunity:

We're hiring a
Staff Backend Engineer
to drive foundational engineering across several high-leverage product areas, including:

  • Real-time Log Analytics
    ingesting, indexing & querying petabyte-scale data with extreme performance requirements
  • AI-Native BI / Talk-to-Data
    redefining how enterprises interact with analytics (already 98%+ adoption in new deployments)
  • Semantic Governance Layer
    powering AI accuracy through context, metadata & enterprise-grade controls
  • Application Runtime Platform
    one of the fastest-growing products, integrating k8s, networking, app builders & AI agents

This is an opportunity to
architect systems that define industry standards
, not just incremental features.

What You'll Do:

  • Design & build
    large-scale distributed backend systems
    used by thousands of global enterprises
  • Ship platform components that impact
    AI, analytics, governance and developer productivity
  • Work in
    service-oriented architecture & high-performance data infrastructure
  • Contribute to
    multi-year technical vision
    with iterative, high-value deliverables
  • Collaborate with exceptional engineers across AI/infra/data/security domains

What You Bring:

  • 10+ years of backend engineering experience at production scale
  • Mastery in
    Java, Scala, or C++
    (deep systems instincts required)
  • Strong CS fundamentals
    algorithms, data structures, distributed systems
  • Experience with
    SaaS or service-oriented cloud architectures
  • Deep familiarity with
    AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, or Docker
  • Comfort working with
    SQL & secure, data-sensitive workloads
  • High ownership mindset motivated by compounding customer impact

Why This Role:

  • Build
    core platform, not features
    foundational, high-leverage engineering
  • Join a
    world-class AI infrastructure company
    built by original creators of major open-source frameworks
  • Vancouver is being built as a
    strategic innovation engine
    , not a cost center
  • Compensation includes
    elite salary, equity, performance upside & global-level benefits

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