Senior Software Engineer

Anaplan; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in scenario planning is seeking a talented Senior Platform Engineer in Ottawa. This role involves building and designing the next generation of the Anaplan Platform, focusing on distributed systems in a high-scale B2B environment. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience with Java and cloud technologies, mentoring capabilities, and a passion for innovative problem-solving within a collaborative workspace.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in Java; RUST programming experience.
• Proven experience in building and maintaining a SaaS product.
• Experience with cloud storage like S3, NetApp, and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Mentor engineering team members and ensure quality architecture.
• Contribute intellectual property through patent generation.

Skills

Java

Rust

Cloud Computing

Distributed Systems

Container Orchestration

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Job description

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies that rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

At Anaplan, we are looking for a strong Senior Platform Engineer to join our team in Ottawa, Canada , as a member of a global engineering organization across the US, UK, Israel, and India.

Are you a creative problem solver who can both give and receive feedback? Do you lead with inclusion, collaboration, and openness? Do you have strong experience with high-scale B2B and B2C platforms?

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll be crafting and helping build the next generation of the Anaplan Platform. You're comfortable with full-stack systems design for the hybrid cloud and hands-on distributed systems programming with extensive knowledge of Java, JVM, Rust, Linux internals, and container orchestration.

This role is an immediate full-time position and will require you to be in our Ottawa office two days a week. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and seek unique problems that no one is solving in the tech space yet, keep reading.

Your Impact:

• Design and implement highly scalable distributed systems and shared services infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment using Java11, Kotlin, Rust, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Use data-driven approaches to measure the quality of our platform and be a strong enthusiast for security and observability.
• Implement code to the desired specification following the standard methodologies, including tests (TDD) and documentation.
• Serving as a senior team member and ensuring architecture and design is at its best.
• Mentor engineering team members.
• Contribute intellectual property through patent generation.
• Apply your judgment to determine what to defer and what problem needs to be solved now, taking a pragmatic, business-oriented approach to evolving solutions over time.
• Influence infrastructure architecture by sharing your expertise.

Your Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience as a professional Platform Engineer.
• 10 years of experience in Java; RUST programming experience
• Proven experience in building and maintaining a SaaS product at scale.
• Proven cloud experience using containers and orchestration Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud storage S3, NFS, NetApp OnTap, AWS FSX, Cohesity
• Distributed Systems and programming techniques.
• Monitoring and metrics infrastructure (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Splunk, SignalFx).
• Public Cloud (AWS / GCP/ Azure).
• Bonus: Experience with AI/ML, Natural Language

Technologies you'll work with:

• Programming languages: Java11, Kotlin, Rust, Python
• Persistence: MySQL, CRDB, Redis, S3, NFS, NetApp
• Container and Orchestration: Kubernetes/Docker/Rancher RKE
• Public cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure
• CI/CD/Build/Deploy: GitHub, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, Harness, Artifactory
• Telemetry: Grafana, Loki, Prometheus

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