Senior Infrastructure Developer, Optimization Software

About the role

Infrastructure Developer

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain core infrastructure supporting optimization engines and planning workflows
• Improve scalability, reliability, and performance of distributed optimization workloads
• Build reusable infrastructure components for model execution, data handling, and solver integration
• Analyze performance bottlenecks in optimization pipelines and underlying systems
• Optimize compute, memory usage, and data flow for large-scale planning problems
• Support solver integration and tuning (e.g., Optimization approaches)
• Contribute to evolving platform architecture and hardware
• Design systems that support large datasets, parallel execution, and incremental solving
• Ensure systems meet enterprise-grade reliability and maintainability standards

What we are looking for

• B.Sc or more in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience working with various cloud resources and deployments.
• Public cloud experience (Azure and/or GCP; AWS is a plus), using console and APIs
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes (AKS and/or GKE)
• CI/CD and/or GitOps experience (pipelines, GitHub Actions)
• Experience with Docker
• Comfortable working with logging and observability platforms
• Ability to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for performance testing using testing frameworks and tools.
• Ability to find opportunities to accelerate the SDLC through innovative application of AI or other tooling, while upholding architecture consistency, secure design, and code- quality standards.
• Ability to review AI-generated code rigorously for correctness, architectural fit, integration risk, and edge case support with a growth mindset and bias for experimentation.
• Nice to have experience in commercial solvers (Gurobi, CPLEX,...)
• Nice to have knowledge of Supply Chain Management (Demand Planning, MRP, S&OP, Capacity Planning)

Location

Ottawa and Toronto, Canada - Hybrid
Other Canadian or USA locations - Remote

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy

Company Overview

Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI-infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today's volatility and disruption. 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.

Our Culture

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. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you!

Our Team

We are looking for an Infrastructure Developer to join the Supply Chain Optimization team. This role focuses on building and evolving the core infrastructure that supports large-scale optimization and planning systems. You will enable high-performance execution of complex optimization models, improve system scalability, and ensure robustness across distributed environments. This position sits at the intersection of systems engineering, platform infrastructure and Optimization (OR), and plays a critical role in enabling advanced capabilities that the Supply Chain Optimization Team are developing.

Our Impact

Every day, we are empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come.

Our Technology

Our cloud-based platform Maestro ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint. Our customers have terabytes of data that needs to be analyzed for the largest supply chains imaginable. Our algorithms move the global economy-- in seconds, not hours, or days. It’s Big Data with an impact.

Our Customers

We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Unilever, P&G, ExxonMobil, Cisco and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we're committed to a long-term net-zero operations strategy. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

Perks and Benefits

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide days off)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs, training, and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

Contact Information

If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

AI in Recruitment

Kinaxis uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description to identify candidates whose education, experience, and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.