Backend Engineer – Workflow Execution and Orchestration, Kitchener, ON

Siemens Mobility; Kitchener; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Profit sharing

Annual discretionary bonus

Job summary

Siemens Mobility Canada is seeking a Backend Engineer – Workflow Execution & Orchestration in Kitchener, ON. You will design and implement workflow services coordinating tasks across services, users, and machines, building data-processing and annotation pipelines.

You will work with platform architects and robotics integration engineers to define interactions with connectors and APIs, while advancing observability, error handling, and scalable orchestration patterns across a distributed backend.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong backend engineering experience with workflow-oriented or distributed systems.
• Experience with queues, background job systems, event-driven architectures, stateful backend logic, or workflow engines.
• Good understanding of microservices, asynchronous processing, resiliency patterns, and platform observability.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar backend languages.
• Curiosity for industrial systems, robotics-adjacent applications, or orchestrated execution domains.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement workflow services for task coordination, job execution, review flows, retries, state tracking, and dependency management.
• Build backend logic for data-processing workflows, annotation pipelines, validation jobs, and platform operations.
• Create scalable orchestration patterns using queues, event streams, schedulers, workflow engines, or stateful service logic.
• Collaborate with platform architects and robotics integration engineers to define how orchestration services interact with connectors, APIs, and downstream systems.
• Help evolve the workflow layer toward future robot task workflow execution and machine-level orchestration scenarios.
• Implement observability, logging, metrics, and operational controls for workflow systems.
• Support error handling, reproducibility, and execution transparency for complex asynchronous systems.
• Contribute to engineering quality through testing, code reviews, design discussions, and maintainable implementation patterns.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Workflow orchestration

Python/Go/Java

Microservices

Observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/Software Eng

Tools

Temporal

Airflow

Argo

Cadence

Job description

Backend Engineer – Workflow Execution and Orchestration, Kitchener, ON

Change the future with us.

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who solve ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

About the role: Backend Engineer for Workflow Execution and Orchestration

Are you passionate about building systems that coordinate complex tasks across services, users, and machines? Do you enjoy workflow engines, asynchronous processing, distributed state, and orchestration patterns that turn platform capabilities into executable operations?

We are seeking a Backend Engineer – Workflow Execution & Orchestration to help build the orchestration backbone of the Canada Physical AI platform. Initially, this role will focus on data-processing workflows, annotation/review workflows, pipeline coordination, and event-driven platform execution. Over time, it is expected to contribute to broader support for robot task workflow execution and machine-level orchestration concepts.

This is a strong fit for someone who likes complex backend systems and wants to work on the path from platform workflows toward real-world Physical AI execution environments.

What will you do?

• Design and implement workflow services for task coordination, job execution, review flows, retries, state tracking, and dependency management.
• Build backend logic for data-processing workflows, annotation pipelines, validation jobs, and platform operations.
• Create scalable orchestration patterns using queues, event streams, schedulers, workflow engines, or stateful service logic.
• Collaborate with platform architects and robotics integration engineers to define how orchestration services interact with connectors, APIs, and downstream systems.
• Help evolve the workflow layer toward future robot task workflow execution and machine-level orchestration scenarios.
• Implement observability, logging, metrics, and operational controls for workflow systems.
• Support error handling, reproducibility, and execution transparency for complex asynchronous systems.
• Contribute to engineering quality through testing, code reviews, design discussions, and maintainable implementation patterns.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong backend engineering experience with workflow-oriented or distributed systems.
• Experience with queues, background job systems, event-driven architectures, stateful backend logic, or workflow engines.
• Good understanding of microservices, asynchronous processing, resiliency patterns, and platform observability.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar backend languages.
• Curiosity for industrial systems, robotics-adjacent applications, or orchestrated execution domains.

What sets you apart:

• Experience with workflow engines such as Temporal, Airflow, Argo, Cadence, or comparable tools.
• Familiarity with robotics task coordination, industrial execution logic, or machine/cell-level workflow patterns.
• Experience designing operator-visible execution systems with traceability and operational control.
• Exposure to physical system integrations, event telemetry, or hybrid cloud-edge execution.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Build the founding team and platform capability for a strategic Physical AI initiative in Canada.
• Innovation: Work at the intersection of robotics, AI, industrial software, workflow orchestration, and platform engineering.
• Leadership: Shape the direction, culture, and operating model of a new strategic engineering organization.
• Collaboration: Partner with leading global research, product, and engineering teams.
• Growth: Help define how Physical AI platform capabilities scale from data foundations to runtime-enabled industrial applications.

Salary: Salary iscommensuratewith experience, and base salary ranges between $100,000 CAD - $130,000 CAD, excluding bonus and benefits. In addition to base salary, this role includes eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus of 10 % of base salary, based on Company performance metrics.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2025.

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Canada is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more liveable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast-to-coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca

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