Software Engineering Jobs in Canada

There are 3,146 open Software Engineering jobs in Canada on freehire right now. 1,011 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are ai, cloud and api.

Salary

CurrencyPeriod25thMedian75thPostings
CADyearCA$126,275CA$153,000CA$176,000642
USDyear$132,712$172,500$206,350106
CADhourCA$72CA$88CA$8860

From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.

Most requested skills

  • ai 54%
  • cloud 51%
  • api 49%
  • python 41%
  • java 38%
  • ci-cd 38%
  • aws 33%
  • sql 32%

How the work is done

  • Hybrid 687 · 22%
  • Remote 501 · 16%
  • Onsite 80 · 3%

Visa sponsorship offered in 58% of the 443 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

  • Senior 1,298
  • Staff 215
  • Lead 118
  • Principal 99
  • Junior 52
  • Intern 43

Who is hiring

  • 1000+ employees 726
  • 501-1000 employees 342
  • 51-200 employees 103
  • 11-50 employees 38
  • 201-500 employees 22
  • 1-10 employees 1
3,146 jobs
Instacart Backed by Y Combinator
last week

Senior Software Engineer, Ads

Open 80d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior
Canada

Senior Software Engineer on Instacart's Ads team building scalable reporting systems and data pipelines to deliver accurate insights for advertisers and retailers using technologies like Rails, Go, Spark, and Snowflake.

airflow cad candidate-experience data-pipelines data-quality +16 skills
168 000 – 177 500 CAD
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Instacart Backed by Y Combinator
last week

Senior Software Engineer, AI Productivity

Open 81d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior
Canada

Senior Software Engineer building AI-powered internal tools (code assistants, search, chat) to boost developer productivity at Instacart, using Python/Go/Java, LLMs, and cloud infrastructure.

ai airflow analytics anthropic api +37 skills
168 000 – 177 500 CAD
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Instacart Backed by Y Combinator
last week

Senior Software Engineer, Core Experience

Open 80d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior
Canada

Senior backend engineer at Instacart building scalable systems for grocery shopping, including recommendation and personalization features using Ruby/Go, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.

aws cad candidate-experience datadog graphql +7 skills
168 000 – 177 500 CAD
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Instacart Backed by Y Combinator
last week

Senior Software Engineer I — Agentic Analytics

Open 80d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior
Canada

Build and ship LLM-powered analytics tools for data teams at Instacart, integrating AI into SQL, metadata, and data infrastructure workflows.

agentic-ai ai airflow analytics cad +10 skills
168 000 – 177 500 CAD
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Instacart Backed by Y Combinator
last week

Senior Software Engineer II, Ads Data Solutions Engineering

Open 81d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior
Canada

Senior engineer building and scaling Instacart's ad-tech data infrastructure, including off-platform integrations, cleanroom collaborations, taxonomy automation, and AI-driven tooling.

ai airflow analytics api automation +26 skills
196 000 – 207 000 CAD
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Instacart Backed by Y Combinator
last week

Software Engineer II, Technical Search Visibility

Open 80d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-time
Canada

Builds and ships full-stack SEO and AEO features to improve Instacart's search engine visibility and drive organic traffic, working with React, Ruby, Python, and PostgreSQL.

ab-testing ai airflow automation cad +22 skills
145 000 – 153 000 CAD
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Instacart Backed by Y Combinator
last week

Staff Software Engineer, Bazel & Go

Open 40d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff
Canada

Leads the technical direction for Instacart's Bazel build system and Go platform, improving build performance, CI reliability, and developer velocity for 1000+ engineers.

ai aws cad candidate-experience ci-cd +4 skills
229 000 – 241 000 CAD
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Instacart Backed by Y Combinator
last week

Senior Software Engineer - Core Experience, Growth

Open 24d RemoteNorth AmericaFull-timeSenior
Canada

Build and optimize backend services and APIs for coupon merchandising, A/B testing, and growth features across web and mobile apps.

ab-testing agentic-ai ai amplitude analytics +45 skills
168 000 – 177 500 CAD
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Okta
last week

Senior Software Engineer, AI Authentication (Auth0)

Open 80d North AmericaSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Builds and maintains secure authentication systems for AI applications using TypeScript, Node.js, and databases, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver identity solutions for the Agentic AI era.

agentic-ai ai api authentication cad +16 skills
136 000 – 187 000 CAD
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Okta
last week

Staff Software Engineer, Delegated Administration (Auth0)

Open 80d North AmericaStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Builds and leads Auth0’s delegated administration features for B2B SaaS customers, designing scalable identity workflows in Node.js/TypeScript with PostgreSQL on AWS/Azure.

ai api authentication aws azure +20 skills
160 000 – 220 000 CAD
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Okta
last week

Software Engineer II, End User Protection (Auth0)

Open 80d North America H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Builds and maintains Auth0’s Attack Protection features to detect and block cyberattacks on user accounts using Node.js, cloud platforms, and identity protocols like OAuth and OIDC.

agile ai authentication aws azure +16 skills
160 000 – 220 000 CAD
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Okta
last week

Staff Software Engineer in Test, Linux

Open 75d North AmericaStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Staff Software Engineer in Test builds and maintains automated testing frameworks for Okta's Linux desktop authentication apps using C++/C#/.NET Core, ensuring security and reliability across enterprise environments.

ai authentication automation cad ci-cd +16 skills
140 000 – 192 500 CAD
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Okta
last week

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Network (Auth0)

Open 61d North AmericaSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Build and maintain the global network infrastructure for Auth0, Okta's identity platform, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity for millions of daily logins.

ai api authentication automation aws +17 skills
136 000 – 187 000 CAD
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Okta
last week

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Platform (Auth0)

Open 61d North AmericaStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Builds and designs developer-facing platform surfaces (APIs, SDKs, CLIs) for Auth0, ensuring they work seamlessly for both human developers and AI agents, using Node.js and Go.

agentic-ai ai api api-design cad +8 skills
160 000 – 220 000 CAD
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Okta
last week

Staff Software Engineer, AI Agentic Experience (Auth0)

Open 28d North AmericaStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Builds developer tooling and AI agent infrastructure for secure identity authentication, including MCP servers, demos, and open-source contributions.

agentic-ai ai ai-enablement api authentication +18 skills
160 000 – 220 000 CAD
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Okta
last week

Software Engineer II, Developer Tooling (Auth0)

Open 28d North America H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Build and maintain scalable observability infrastructure for a cloud identity platform, using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Terraform to monitor metrics, logs, and traces across microservices.

ai airflow api automation aws +31 skills
110 000 – 151 800 CAD
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Okta
last week

Senior Software Engineer, Datastores (Auth0)

Open 24d North AmericaSenior H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Builds and maintains highly available, distributed datastores and platform tools for Auth0’s global infrastructure, focusing on scalability, reliability, and cross-team collaboration using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).

ai aws azure cad cloud +12 skills
136 000 – 187 000 CAD
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Okta
last week

Staff Software Engineer, Streaming Foundations

North AmericaStaff H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Builds and scales event-streaming infrastructure and data pipelines for Auth0’s platform, using Go/Java and Kafka to support high-reliability, low-latency messaging and analytics.

agile ai analytics aws azure +16 skills
160 000 – 220 000 CAD
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Okta
last week

Principal Software Engineer – Developer Platform (Auth0)

North AmericaPrincipal H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.
Canada

Principal Software Engineer (P5) leading the Developer Platform team at Auth0 (Okta), responsible for architecting scalable distributed systems, setting technical direction, and ensuring the platform scales for both human and AI agent usage.

agentic-ai ai cad distributed-systems event-driven-architecture +6 skills
184 000 – 253 000 cad
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SALT XC
last week

Software Engineer

HybridNorth AmericaFull-time
Canada

Software Engineer at Salt Media (Toronto, hybrid) splitting time between building secure cloud infrastructure/CI/CD pipelines and developing full-stack web applications and APIs that power AI products, primarily on GCP with Docker.

agentic-ai agile ai analytics api +20 skills
65 000 – 85 000 CAD
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