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Software Engineer Database Engineering in Canada

493 active opportunities · Updated October 2026

Explore current software engineer database engineering jobs across Canada. Filter by work mode, employment type, experience, department, date posted and distance.

Hiring demand

73/100

rising · 187 related jobs

Hiring trend

+12.5%

Job postings compared with the previous 30 days

Remote options

2.7%

Share of matching jobs listed as remote

Typical salary

$202.5K – $202.5K/yr

Based on 49 salary observations

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📍 Canada· Full-time
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From C$107K/yr

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Location Details: Canada, Remote At GoDaddy, the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) , and some work entirely remotely.​ This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Join our team Contribute to the development of GoDaddy’s eCommerce and SSO infrastructure and Kubernetes systems on AWS. On a day-to-day basis you will be working on the team who designs, writes, tests and deploys the infrastructure and application management software for GoDaddy’s eCommerce applications. Expect to learn every day. What you'll get to do... Work as a polyglot engineer, writing and maintaining Infrastructure as code with frameworks/ ecosystems such as Java, Unix CLI, and NodeJS Build and operate infrastructure workflows and deployment pipelines using Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Argo CD, and GitOps practices Design, build, and own services and APIs in Java, running on Kubernetes-based platforms across AWS and distributed systems Develop and support application and infrastructure delivery pipelines, enabling reliable releases of eComm, Auth and Infrastructure services Collaborate closely with other GoDaddy departments to help advance security and technical standards, maintain regulatory compliances while operating eComm & Auth platforms Your experience should include... 5+ years of strong backend software engineering experience in Java Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including Helm, Kustomize, or equivalent tools to deploy and manage backend services Experience building and operating high-volume, mission-critical production systems on AWS with continuous deployment (CD) practices Strong experience with infrastructure as code, supporting backend applications and services Experience with observability a

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -100%

C$188K – C$242K/yr

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Who We Are At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Who You Are You are self-driven and like to work with others to remove roadblocks. You are curious and love to explore and learn new technologies. You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy, and maintain large-scale, complex applications. You care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework. About the role: You will join a small, highly autonomous cross-functional team to build AI agents that fundamentally transform how operations work at scale. Instead of writing bespoke software for every workflow, we are developing an agent platform that can read operational knowledge, reason about it in context, and execute tasks end-to-end. This approach allows us to scale complexity through knowledge and reasoning, rather than simply through code. This is an opportunity to join a foundational team, which currently consists of fewer than five engineers. The work spans critical areas including LLM-powered agent design, robust backend service architecture, tool and integration development, and sophisticated knowledge infrastructure. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a strong pas

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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#TeamNextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com . Meet Your Future Neighbors As a Software Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll join a focused team of developers, product managers, and designers who are passionate about using technology to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbor they can rely on. We are a small, high performing team of engineers that wear multiple hats and prioritize impact for our customers. We care about moving fast and delivering impact, without compromising on quality and reliability as guided by our Engineering Principles . You will have the opportunity to learn from your co-workers and teach them. As a team, we will make each other better and build great software. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You’ll Make We believe in empowering our teams to own all aspects of bringing Nextdoor to life. As such, you’ll get the opportunity to make key contributions across our engineering stack - thi

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$104K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve Okta’s web platform using React and Next.js. In this role, you will bring deep frontend expertise to solve complex engineering problems autonomously from designing scalable page systems and optimizing performance to integrating CMS APIs and refining developer workflows. You work independently on ambiguous problems but thrive in collaboration with designers, content architects, and fellow engineers. AI-assisted development tools are part of how this team works, and you leverage them fluently to move faster while maintaining high standards. This is a hands-on IC role with significant autonomy and real ownership, ideal for an engineer who combines deep technical understanding with strong collaborative instincts. Key Responsibilities Frontend Development & Architecture: Build and maintain reusable page templates, features, and component systems in Next.js using TypeScript and React. Design scalable data-fetching patterns from headless CMS APIs (GraphQL and REST), transforming structured content into polished frontend experiences. Collaborate on content model design with content architects, ensuring CMS data maps cleanly to frontend templates. Implement responsive, accessible, high-performance UI following established design system patterns and propose improvements when existing patterns fall short. Design System Collaboration: Work closely with the design system team to assemble pag

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -63.6%

From C$136K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Platform Network Engineering Team Auth0 by Okta is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for over 100 million daily logins worldwide. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier 0 global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. The Senior Software Engineer Opportunity You will be part of the Platform Network engineering team responsible for all connectivity of Auth0. You will play a key engineering role as we evolve our network architecture to meet the demands of enormous growth and support the hundreds of millions of users who rely on us to provide uninterrupted access. You will get to work with engineers throughout the engineering organization. What you’ll be doing Implement internal and edge networking infrastructure and design solutions that work at global scale and with multi-cloud and multi-region constraints. Carry cross-team initiatives from end to end: code reviews, design reviews, operational robustness, security hygiene, etc. Design and develop new services, tools, and automation to expose network functionality to other Okta engineering and operations teams. Research and implement solutions addressing cross-cutting concerns such as routing, failover, and scaling. Participate in the team’s on-call rotation. What you’ll bring to the role Have 3+ years of

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingDemand 73/100Company trend -63.6%

From C$160K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Auth0 Team Auth0 is an easy-to-implement authentication and authorization platform designed by developers for developers. We make access to applications safe, secure, and seamless for the more than 100 million daily logins around the world. Our modern approach to identity enables this Tier-Ø global service to deliver convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. This team focuses on providing tenant-level protections to our customers, at scale. From bot detection to brute-force to suspicious IP throttling and beyond, this team often provides the first line of defense for Auth0 customers. The Staff Software Engineer At Okta, we’re building the next generation of authentication for the GenAI era. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the AI DevEx team at Auth0. This role is pivotal in extending and complementing our Auth for GenAI offering by building the infrastructure, tooling, and developer experiences that empower both human developers and AI agents to build secure, intelligent applications. Auth0 Emerging Tech is the Engineering organization where we take care of the hottest technology out there: we ship fast, we don't break things. We are a dynamic and collaborative distributed and diverse team. We value ownership, learning and innovation. This is an ideal role for an engineer who enjoys building for other engineers, working across stacks, and shaping the

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingTypical range payDemand 73/100Company trend -63.6%

From $184K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta Identity Governance (OIG) organization is looking for a Principal Engineer to join our team — OIG is Okta’s Identity Governance and Administration solution that is directly responsible for one of the most critical and visible workflows in enterprise identity: how employees request, approve, and gain access to the resources they need. Opportunity As a Principal Engineer on the OIG team, you will be involved into development, design, and maintenance of our product to serve enterprise customers at scale. You will involve the architecture and evolution of our product features — spanning the across different access governance personas — and work collaboratively across engineering, product, and design to deliver features that are secure, scalable, and delightful to use. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, leads with craft, and is energized by the challenge of building enterprise-grade software that millions of users depend on. Th

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingDemand 73/100Company trend -63.6%

From C$140K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Okta Verify Team Okta Verify Team builds desktop and mobile applications for authentication and authorization across Okta-protected resources. Our mission is to enable customers to access these resources securely. We develop Okta cloud services and client software that allow users to seamlessly login to devices and use Okta authenticators to access applications securely. The Staff Software Engineer in Test Opportunity We seek a passionate and experienced C++ / Linux Staff Software Engineer in Test to join our dynamic team. We are looking for someone who is excited about testing and automation for the Linux Platform and can build for this enterprise setting. Okta Engineering strongly believes in automated testing, UX design, and an iterative process to build high-quality next-generation software. The ideal candidate is passionate about leading quality strategy for large-scale, mission-critical client applications on Linux platform.This is a great opportunity to work in an environment of scale, work in a talented and passionate group, build processes, and be front and center in Okta’s vision of passwordless access to any application. The role gives the candidate an excellent opportunity to learn about interesting problems in security and identity space. It also has a lot of visibility within Okta and has great growth potential. What you’ll be doing Collaborate with the product management, development, and cro

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingDemand 73/100Company trend -63.6%

From C$160K/yr

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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Overview At Okta, we are building a world where anyone can safely use any technology, and within Okta Platform R&D, we're specifically focused on protecting the future of work. We are a globally-minded company dedicated to delighting our customers across the world. We are looking for an experienced full stack Staff Software Engineer (with a focus on UI) who is passionate about building large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure in a fast-paced agile environment. The ideal candidate will be excited about joining a platform team that is driving several cross functional initiatives within the company. You will be responsible for defining the forward-looking vision for Okta’s UI platform infrastructure. You will work with a globally distributed engineering team to build the frameworks and systems that empower all feature teams to effectively deliver world-ready software. You will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining shared libraries and tools used across the entire organization, ensuring accessibility, scalability, and adherence to Okta’s coding standards. If you are passionate about technical leadership and have a deep expertise in transforming complex products for a global audience, then we want to talk to you. In this role, you’ll get to… Define, own, and drive the architectural vision and technical roadmap for a major UI platform subsystem (e.g., internationalization and localization infrastructure), securing buy-in across dependen

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