Staff Software Engineer
Magnet Forensics15 days ago
Canada (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, build, and scale a cloud-native data enrichment service.
- Drive technical decisions involving scalability, performance, reliability, observability, and cost optimization.
- Lead modernization efforts and establish reusable frameworks, design patterns, tooling, and engineering practices.
- Ship pragmatic solutions hands-on through prototyping, implementation, and broad adoption across engineering teams.
- Collaborate with Senior Engineers, Technical Leads, Product Managers, and UX to document tradeoffs and guide delivery.
- Mentor and empower senior developers and engineering teams through teaching, technical leadership, and continuous improvement.
- Design and implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience designing, delivering, and optimizing solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Proficiency in several of C#, ASP.NET Core, Python, PowerShell, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, SQL, and Elasticsearch.
- Broad expertise in systems design, networking, distributed systems, cloud-scale development and operations, architecture, or performance-optimized algorithms.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders, support change initiatives, and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
- Strong mentorship, leadership, learning, and teaching skills, with a record of shipping pragmatic solutions.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Nice-to-have experience with domain-driven design, modular architecture, AI systems, LLM architectures, token generation, MCP frameworks, agentic AI, Claude, Cursor, or Codex.
- Candidates must reside in Canada.
Benefits
- $140,000–$190,000 CDN annual compensation range.
- Generous time-off policies, healthcare and retirement benefits, volunteer opportunities, recognition programs, and employee committees and resource groups.
- Hybrid-flexible work arrangement with occasional in-person attendance, typically weekly to monthly depending on team needs.
- Employment is contingent on satisfactory completion of a background check.
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About Magnet Forensics
Magnet Forensics builds digital investigation software used to acquire, analyze, and manage evidence from computers, mobile devices, cloud services, and IoT sources for law enforcement, government, and enterprises. It sells licensed and subscription software with training and services, and serves 4,000+ customers in 100+ countries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Magnet Forensics is privately held under Thoma Bravo.