Location
Ottawa and Toronto, Canada - Hybrid
Other Canadian locations - Remote
Vacancy Status
This is an existing job vacancy
What you will do
Infrastructure & Platform Development
- Design, develop, and maintain core infrastructure supporting optimization engines and planning workflows
- Improve scalability, reliability, and performance of distributed optimization workloads
- Build reusable infrastructure components for model execution, data handling, and solver integration
Performance & Optimization
- Analyze performance bottlenecks in optimization pipelines and underlying systems
- Optimize compute, memory usage, and data flow for large-scale planning problems
- Support solver integration and tuning (e.g., Optimization approaches)
System Architecture
- Contribute to evolving platform architecture and hardware
- Design systems that support large datasets, parallel execution, and incremental solving
- Ensure systems meet enterprise-grade reliability and maintainability standards
What we are looking for
- B.Sc or more in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
- 5+ years of experience working with various cloud resources and deployments.
- Public cloud experience (Azure and/or GCP; AWS is a plus), using console and APIs
- Hands‑on experience operating Kubernetes (AKS and/or GKE)
- CI/CD and/or GitOps experience (pipelines, GitHub Actions)
- Experience with Docker
- Comfortable working with logging and observability platforms
- Ability to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for performance testing using testing frameworks and tools.
- Ability to find opportunities to accelerate the SDLC through innovative application of AI or other tooling, while upholding architecture consistency, secure design, and code‑quality standards.
- Ability to review AI‑generated code rigorously for correctness, architectural fit, integration risk, and edge case support with a growth mindset and bias for experimentation.
- Nice to have experience in commercial solvers (Gurobi, CPLEX,...)
- Nice to have knowledge of Supply Chain Management (Demand Planning, MRP, S&OP, Capacity Planning)
Benefits
People matter at Kinaxis and here are some of the perks and benefits we offer, which may vary by location and employee:
- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide days off)
- Flexible work options
- Physical and mental well-being programs
- Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
- Mentorship programs, training, and career development
- Recognition programs and referral rewards
- Hackathons
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