Senior Infrastructure Developer, Optimization… at Kinaxis · Remote

About Kinaxis

Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis 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!

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

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.

Location

Ottawa and Toronto, Canada - HybridOther Canadian or USA locations - Remote

About the 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. 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 cloud-based platform Maestro ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it tomarket 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. Gartner Report

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy

What you will do

Infrastructure & Platform Development• 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

Performance & Optimization• 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)

System Architecture• 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)

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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day, when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Unilever, P&G, ExxonMobil, Cisco and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: 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.

People matter at Kinaxis and here are some of the perks and benefits we offer, which may vary by location and employee:

• 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

For more information, visit the Kinaxis website at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com.

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. 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.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use 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.