Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics | Canada | Remote

Overview

Build the database layer for an AI-native, general-purpose data platform supporting analytics queries and freshly stored data. Own scalable database systems from early prototypes through production-grade SaaS.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, test, and operate ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, and storage components.
• Build multi-tenant database services with tenant isolation, quotas, usage tracking, audit logs, and background jobs.
• Develop APIs and database interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards.
• Shape architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, and deployment patterns.
• Partner across product and infrastructure to balance experimentation with reliability.

What you'll need

• Experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems.
• Experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines.
• Mastery of a programming language such as Go, C++, or Rust.
• A track record of delivering software used by people in production.
• Exposure to cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience using observability tools to troubleshoot system behavior.

Nice to have

• Experience building distributed query engines.
• Experience building data warehouses or data lakes.
• Experience building tools for data engineering.

Details

• Location: Canada.
• Work mode: Remote.
• Base compensation: $164,490–$197,389 per year.