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

Software Development Principal Engineer

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 or similar

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

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

5+ years enterprise software development, cloud‑native containerized solutions and SaaS platforms

Expert containerization technologies: Docker, Kubernetes/AKS, with deep infrastructure optimization experience

Proven software architecture for enterprise multi‑tenant containerized SaaS with advanced scalability patterns

Extensive container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), complete containerized SDLC management

Strong communication and leadership skills with cross‑functional infrastructure and development teams

Technical Expertise

Deep AKS ecosystem: Advanced cluster management, node pools, networking, RBAC, performance tuning, cost optimization

Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh, auto‑scaling, resource management, security policies

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (expert‑level), ARM templates, automated infrastructure provisioning and management

Frontend technologies: Angular 15+, AngularJS, dynamic UI from configuration, containerized frontend deployment

Backend development: Python, C#/.NET 8, NodeJS, containerized microservices architecture

Azure Services: Service Bus, KeyVault, Event Grid, Event Hub, SQL, Cosmos DB, Storage

AWS Services: EC2, Lambda functions, Event Bridge, RDS, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, CloudFormation, CloudFront

Observability stack: Grafana (expert‑level), Elasticsearch, monitoring containerized applications and infrastructure

Enterprise CI/CD pipelines for containerized deployments using Azure DevOps, GitOps practices

Specialized Skills (Preferred)

Advanced AKS infrastructure: Multi‑region deployments, disaster recovery, advanced networking (NSG rules, VNETs, CNI, ingress controllers)

Container security: Pod security policies, network policies, vulnerability scanning, compliance in containerized environments

Performance optimization: Container resource tuning, AKS cluster optimization, cost management strategies

Service mesh technologies: Istio, Linkerd, advanced traffic management and observability

GraphQL: Advanced schema design, query optimization, containerized GraphQL service deployment, experience with Apollo Federation

AI/ML integration: Azure Semantic Kernel, OpenAI APIs, GitHub Copilot

Security: Claims‑based auth (OAuth2/OIDC/JWT/MFA/RBAC), compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC2, OWASP, SANS, FedRAMP is a big plus)

Microsoft enterprise technologies: Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Graph APIs

UI configuration systems: Dynamic Angular component generation, configuration‑driven user interfaces and hands on Angular and TypeScript experience

Elasticsearch: Advanced search implementations, cluster management, performance optimization in containerized environments

Grafana: Custom dashboard development, advanced alerting, infrastructure and application monitoring

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.

When you join our team, you will have the opportunity to build and develop products at a scale few others can provide. Our product portfolio serves a large base of customers and we are addressing the strategic imperatives for enterprise businesses. Working with some of the most talented employees the industry has to offer, we provide enhanced career opportunities for team members to learn and grow in a rapidly changing environment.

Why work with us? - Life at Quest means collaborating with dedicated professionals with a passion for technology.

- When we see something that could be improved, we get to work inventing the solution.

- Our people demonstrate our winning culture through positive and meaningful relationships.

- We invest in our people and offer a series of programs that enables them to pursue a career that fulfills their potential.

- Our team members’ health and wellness is our priority as well as rewarding them for their hard work.

Equal Opportunity 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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