Software Architect - fully remote
KinaxisAre you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, 6 global office and a best-in-clas
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s HQ in Ottawa, Canada.
As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. With more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries, we are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
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Canadian or USA locations - Remote We are seeking a Software Platform Architect to lead the evolution of our Maestro platform toa cloud‑native architecture with experience designing database engines, storage engines, distributed databases, query execution systems, or other large-scale data infrastructure platforms. As part of the Product R&D organization, you will define and drive the architectural foundations that enable massive scale, elastic performance, and cost‑efficient execution across Kinaxis’ next‑generation backend platform that underpins Maestro. This role is central to Kinaxis’ platform modernization — re‑architecting core data, query, and execution capabilities to operate natively in the cloud while preserving the performance, reliability, and customer trust that define our platform.
You operate comfortably across the full architecture lifecycle - from conceptual design and deep technical exploration to hands‑on implementation and production hardening. You are driven by complex systems problems and understand how to balance performance, scalability, cost, and operational resilience in real‑world cloud environments. You think naturally in terms of data flow, consistency models, latency trade‑offs, fault tolerance, and system boundaries, and you continuously push for simpler, more robust, and more performant designs.
You will contribute to the architectural direction for the backend platform, shaping how large‑scale data processing, query execution, and platform services are built and evolved. You will act as a technical authority across Product R&D, influencing architectural decisions that span cloud infrastructure, core platform services, and data systems. You will mentor senior engineers, elevate architectural rigor across teams, and foster a culture where architects are deeply accountable for the systems they design.
You write code, validate assumptions through prototypes, and work closely with engineering teams to ensure designs translate into reliable, scalable implementations. You are a strong collaborator and communicator, able to explain complex architectural concepts to engineers, product leaders, and executives alike. You bring structure to ambiguity and guide teams toward solutions that align technical excellence with business outcomes.
Advanced education in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Deep, demonstrated experience building large‑scale, distributed cloud systems is required We are implementing our own distributed database and query engine, specifically for supply chain data and use cases. We are looking for extensive experience designing, implementing and evolving core database, storage, indexing, query execution, caching, consistency, replication, or metadata-management capabilities in large-scale, distributed production systems.
Extensive experience designing and building large‑scale, distributed systems in production environments. Strong background in data‑intensive systems, such as distributed data processing, distributed data bases, query engines, or platform‑l