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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Capacity Modeling)

  • Remote, Canada
  • Senior
  • Posted 8 days ago
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Backend engineering role on a team that turns traffic forecasts into capacity plans so the platform survives peak sales events; Python or Kotlin, AWS and Kubernetes.

About the role

Capacity modeling work maps demand like checkout volume to CPU, memory and connections, then sets pod counts and autoscaling ranges across regions and environments.

At a glance

Pay
Not stated in the posting
Remote scope
Remote, Canada
Seniority
Senior
Skills
Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes
Posted
21 Oct 2026
Last checked
28 Oct 2026

What you will do

  • Own and deliver quarterly goals, guiding engineers through open-ended problems
  • Build and maintain statistical capacity models that link traffic to resource needs
  • Support availability of team artifacts with metrics, escalation and on-call
  • Set or improve code review and design standards and mentor teammates

What they look for

  • 4 or more years building and launching backend systems at scale in Python or Kotlin
  • Experience with highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
  • Have supported scaling for large sales events such as Black Friday
  • Have tuned autoscaling, CPU and memory, and multi-threading for compute workloads
  • Can define a technical plan for a significant feature with a simple, extensible design
  • Comfortable making big changes in a large codebase and building tools to do so safely

Benefits

  • Base pay plus possible monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending

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It is a senior role. The posting asks for: 4 or more years building and launching backend systems at scale in Python or Kotlin; experience with highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes; have supported scaling for large sales events such as Black Friday. Skills it names include Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL.

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