Software Dev Prin Engineer

Overview

Job Title : Software Development Principal Engineer

Location : Canada Remote

Work Hours : This position requires regular working hours aligned with the Eastern Time Zone (ET).

Employment Type : Regular Full-time

Reports to : Software Engineer Sr. Director

Hourly Rate : $60 CAD to $86.75 CAD

Quest Software Canada Inc. is seeking a Software Development Principal Engineer to join our dynamic and agile R&D organization, leading the design and development of cloud-native SaaS products on the Microsoft Azure platform. In this role, you''ll provide hands-on technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle, from architectural design to scalable implementation and DevOps automation.

You’ll work closely with a team of high-performing engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver innovative, secure, and intelligent enterprise-grade solutions that integrate deeply with Microsoft technologies such as Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Azure PaaS, and more.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Architecture
• Drive technical vision and containerization strategy across multiple engineering teams for enterprise SaaS platforms
• Own end-to-end system design for multi-tenant containerized applications processing billions of events with 99.9%+ availability
• Lead technical due diligence for infrastructure decisions, container orchestration, and technology adoption
• Establish engineering standards, best practices, and containerization patterns organization-wide
• Mentor cross-functional teams, fostering technical excellence in container technologies and infrastructure optimization
• Drive adoption of emerging technologies (container orchestration, service mesh, observability, Infrastructure as Code)
• Lead process improvement initiatives for containerized deployment pipelines, cost optimization, and performance tuning
• Provide expert resource estimation, timeline planning, and infrastructure cost optimization analysis
• Hands-on Technical Leadership
• Architect enterprise-scale containerized microservices using Docker, Kubernetes / AKS, with advanced scalability and performance tuning
• Design scalable, secure multi-tenant backend systems using C# / .NET 8, NodeJS and Python with containerized deployment strategies
• Implement sophisticated container orchestration with proper resource allocation, auto-scaling, and cost optimization techniques
• Own complex containerized components from conception through deployment, monitoring, and production support
• Drive best practices : containerization standards, infrastructure-as-code, advanced CI / CD for container deployments
• SaaS Platform & Infrastructure Excellence
• Design customer-facing RESTful and GraphQL APIs with containerized deployment on AKS
• Build comprehensive observability stack using Grafana, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, Application Insights for containerized environments
• Architect dynamic UI generation from configuration using Angular 15+, AngularJS
• Maintain sophisticated infrastructure pipelines using Terraform, YAML, ARM templates for AKS cluster management
• Establish disaster recovery and high-availability patterns for containerized enterprise data retention
• Implement advanced AKS infrastructure including node pools, networking, security policies, and cost optimization
• Design and implement container-based auto-scaling strategies for performance and cost efficiency

Qualifications

Technical Expertise

Specialized Skills (Preferred)

Company Description

Quest Software enables organizations of all sizes to better secure, manage, monitor, protect, and analyze information and infrastructure in order to help fuel innovation and drive their businesses forward. With over 5,000 team members around the globe, we intend to continue to grow revenues and add value to customers.

Why work with us?

Quest is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind : Quest is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Quest are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and / or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Quest will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Quest encourages applicants of all ages.

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