Staff Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Distributed Systems

Kaseya; Toronto; On-site; CAD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaseya is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to guide design and evolution of large-scale platform systems across the engineering organization. You’ll work on distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, platform reliability, and AI-assisted practices to improve developer productivity and product quality.

You will collaborate across multiple teams to shape technical direction, modernize systems, reduce technical debt, and deliver scalable software platforms with a focus on observability and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building production applications or platform services.
• Experience leading technical design or architecture decisions across multiple teams or services.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience building full-stack applications, APIs, or platform services using modern languages (Rust, C#, JavaScript).
• Experience supporting production systems including observability, incident response, and reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems and platform architectures.
• Define technical direction across teams for scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices to improve velocity, code quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shape priorities and roadmap decisions.
• Mentor engineers and leads through architectural guidance and best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

Observability

Engineering collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Bicep

CI/CD

Job description

Kaseya is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to guide design and evolution of large-scale platform systems across the engineering organization. You’ll work on distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, platform reliability, and AI-assisted practices to improve developer productivity and product quality.

You will collaborate across multiple teams to shape technical direction, modernize systems, reduce technical debt, and deliver scalable software platforms with a focus on observability and