Software Engineer (SRE)

Scotiabank; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Toronto is seeking a Software Engineer (SRE) to enhance capital markets products and analytics platforms. This role involves ensuring system reliability, optimizing batch processing, and implementing monitoring solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong Linux system skills, and proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python and Java. Opportunities for career development are provided alongside a competitive rewards program including flexible vacation and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Upskilling through online courses

Competitive rewards program including bonuses

Flexible vacation

Community engagement opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong technical and engineering mindset.
• Proven experience optimizing batch workloads for performance.
• Excellent incident management and root-cause analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure stability and optimise batch processing pipelines.
• Implement and maintain monitoring with Dynatrace.
• Manage and tune Linux and Windows systems for performance.
• Create/modify and optimise Airflow DAGs.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Apply security best practices for systems and automation.

Skills

Linux Systems Expertise

Python

Java

Springboot

SQL

Dynatrace Mastery

Airflow Expertise

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)

Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Job description

Requisition ID: 245210.

The Team

Global Banking and Markets Engineering (GBME) is the fast-moving, award-winning technology engine that powers Scotiabank’s Corporate, Investment Banking and Capital Markets businesses.

The Role

GBME is searching for a Software Engineer (SRE) who is a continuous learner eager to boost capabilities of capital markets products and analytics platforms.

The successful candidate will have a strong technical and engineering mindset. You will work closely with business teams and cross‑functional engineering leaders to develop and implement market‑leading solutions for the various projects within GBME.

About the Job

Do you thrive when faced with challenges? Like using fresh technologies to solve problems? Looking to work on various projects across the organization, collaborating with great teams and inspiring leaders? Then this is the right team for you! In this exciting role, you’ll apply your analytical skills to design and develop applications that deliver excellence, effectiveness, and value to our business partners and customers.

Responsibilities

• Reliability & Performance: Ensure stability and optimise batch processing pipelines; reduce runtime and failure rates, engineering for resiliency.
• Observability: Implement and maintain monitoring with Dynatrace; create dashboards, alerts, and runbooks.
• Systems Engineering: Manage and tune Linux and Windows systems for performance and resilience.
• Automation & Orchestration: Create/modify and optimise Airflow DAGs; build CI/CD pipelines for automation.
• Incident Management: Lead incident response, root‑cause analysis, and post‑mortems; enforce SLOs and reliability practices.
• Security & Compliance: Apply security best practices and ensure regulatory compliance in systems and automation.

Qualifications

• Linux Systems Expertise: Kernel/OS tuning, networking, filesystem optimisation, process management, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with modern development languages and frameworks (Python, Java, Springboot, SQL, etc.).
• Dynatrace Mastery: Custom dashboards, KPIs, anomaly detection, tagging strategy, and alerting configuration.
• Airflow Expertise: DAG design best practices, SLA management, scheduler/executor tuning, and scaling strategies.
• Proven experience optimizing batch workloads for performance, reliability, and cost.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts (retries, idempotency, backpressure, data integrity).
• Strong understanding of backend systems and batch optimisation.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Proven experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent incident management and root‑cause analysis skills.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to have skills)

• Experience with automated deployment.
• Understanding of networking protocols and security principles.
• Capital Markets product knowledge.
• Experience with batch.
• Experience working with real‑time, high‑availability and low‑latency systems.

Benefits

• Di versity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship – We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and embraced through bias‑free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employees to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations – We value the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove, and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross‑functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community engagement – no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.