Senior Platform Backend Engineer

Kaseya Limited; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaseya Limited is seeking a Senior Platform Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate backend services connecting workflow execution, identity, event routing, secrets management, and audit infrastructure across the Kaseya Intelligence Platform.

The role emphasizes Go or Rust, event-driven architecture, multi-tenant security, and production reliability, with ownership from design to deployment and ongoing operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience in production services with Go or Rust.
• Experience building event-driven systems using Kafka or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing authentication/authorization using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, or related tech.
• Experience implementing encryption or key-management solutions using cloud KMS platforms.
• Experience operating multi-tenant production services with structured logging, metrics, and tracing.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate backend platform services supporting API access, event routing, workflow execution, machine identity, and immutable audit records.
• Develop event-driven integrations that convert PSA webhooks, RMM alerts, and platform events into durable workflows using Kafka and Temporal.
• Implement a secrets-management and KMS abstraction across cloud providers and BYOK models with cryptographic isolation.
• Build authentication and authorization services that enforce granular access controls for customers, workflows, and service-to-service requests.
• Own GitOps-based deployment pipelines for versioned workflow definitions across isolated customer environments.
• Develop onboarding automation for identity provisioning, compliance configuration, and customer-specific key-management setup.
• Build secure connector services for third-party APIs with scoped access and audit logging.
• Own the reliability of production services through monitoring, tracing, incident response, and long-term improvements.

Skills

Go/Rust backend

Kafka

OAuth/OIDC

Cloud KMS

Multi-tenant observability

Tools

Temporal

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Job description

About Kaseya

Kaseya is the leading provider of AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software, serving Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and internal IT organizations worldwide. Our comprehensive platform helps organizations efficiently manage, secure, and automate their IT environments, driving operational efficiency and long-term business success.

Backed by Insight Partners, a leading global software investor, Kaseya has experienced sustained double-digit growth and continues to expand its global footprint. Today, Kaseya supports customers in more than 20 countries and manages over 15 million endpoints worldwide.

Founded in 2000, Kaseya was built by builders - and we're still building. We look for people who create rather than wait, who see a hard problem and lean in, and who treat challenges as raw material. At Kaseya, everyone plays a role in shaping the future of IT: whether you're in engineering, product, sales, marketing, customer support, or operations, your work helps protect, defend, and optimize IT environments across the globe.

We're building teams that grow, perform, and make an impact. If you're driven by the itch to make things better - a product, a process, a career - you'll fit right in.

At Kaseya, we don't just raise the bar. We build it.

Senior Platform Backend Engineer (Go/Rust, Distributed Systems)

Why Kaseya?

Join a fast-growing company that’s transforming the IT industry. At Kaseya, you’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology, collaborate with a dynamic team, and develop your career in a highimpact role.

Join the Kaseya growth rocket ship and see how we are #ChangingLives!

Job Summary

We're hiring a Senior Platform Backend Engineer to build and operate the services connecting workflow execution, identity, event routing, secrets management, and audit infrastructure across the Kaseya Intelligence Platform. This is a hands-on backend role focused on Go or Rust, event-driven architecture, multi-tenant security, and production reliability. You'll independently own complex services used by engineering teams and agentic AI workloads, from design and implementation through deployment and ongoing operation.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build and operate backend platform services supporting API access, event routing, workflow execution, machine identity, and immutable audit records
• Develop event-driven integrations that convert PSA webhooks, RMM alerts, and platform events into durable workflows using Kafka and Temporal
• Implement a secrets-management and KMS abstraction supporting cloud key-management providers, bring-your-own-key models, envelope encryption, and customer-level cryptographic isolation
• Build authentication and authorization services that enforce capability grants for individual customers, workflows, operations, and service-to-service requests
• Own GitOps-based deployment pipelines for versioned workflow definitions across isolated customer environments
• Develop onboarding automation for identity provisioning, compliance configuration, and customer-specific key-management setup
• Build secure connector services for third-party APIs, including scoped access, platform-managed credentials, request validation, and audit logging
• Own the reliability of production services through monitoring, distributed tracing, incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term corrective improvements

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including experience building and operating production services using Go or Rust
• Experience building event-driven systems using Kafka or similar technologies, including retries, idempotency, replay, and at-least-once delivery
• Experience implementing authentication or authorization using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, token lifecycle management, machine identity, or fine-grained access controls
• Experience implementing encryption or key-management solutions using cloud KMS platforms, envelope encryption, or key-hierarchy designs
• Experience operating multi-tenant production services using structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and incident-response practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Temporal or another durable workflow orchestration platform
• Experience integrating identity platforms such as Zitadel, Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, or similar technologies
• Experience with ClickHouse or another columnar, append-only, or audit-focused data store
• Experience with GitOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, or infrastructure-as-code deployment practices
• Experience integrating MSP, PSA, RMM, security, or Microsoft 365 platform APIs
• Experience building software for environments subject to SOC 2, HIPAA, CMMC, or similar requirements
• Experience developing platform services across AWS, Azure, or GCP

Additional Information

Kaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Additional information
Kaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.