Job Title:Staff Backend Engineer (SaaS, Data & AI)
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Job SummaryWe're hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to help design and deliver SaaS products powered by data, machine learning, and AI. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building scalable backend systems, integrating ML/AI capabilities into customer workflows, and improving system reliability and performance across the platform. You'll work closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering teams to deliver production-ready features while contributing to architecture decisions, engineering standards, and technical mentorship across teams.
Roles & Responsibilities- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs for a multi-tenant SaaS platform
- Deliver backend features end-to-end, including APIs, business logic, integrations, and data models
- Partner with Product, Design, and Data/ML teams to integrate ML and AI capabilities into customer workflows
- Improve system scalability, reliability, monitoring, and operational performance across production services
- Contribute to architecture decisions related to APIs, distributed systems, authentication, and integrations
- Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and production support for critical services
- Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering standards and best practices
Required Qualifications- 8+ years of software engineering experience in a production environment
- Experience designing and building backend systems for SaaS applications
- Experience building APIs and backend services using technologies such as Node.js, Java, Go, Rust, or similar
- Experience integrating data, ML, or AI capabilities into production systems
- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with Python and data-related tooling (e.g., pandas, PyTorch)
- Experience working with relational databases, caching systems, or data warehousing concepts
- Familiarity with ML/AI systems, including model integrations or LLM-powered workflows
- Experience with containers and cloud infrastructure technologies
- Experience improving monitoring, observability, and operational tooling
- Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to technical design reviews
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) in development workflows
Compensation RangeThe base salary range for this role is CAD $210,000 - $250,000 / year.
An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant. At Kaseya, certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
Additional InformationKaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.