Senior Infrastructure Developer, Optimization Software

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.

Ottawa and Toronto, Canada
- Hybrid

Other Canadian locations
- Remote

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 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. Gartner Report

This is an existing job vacancy

• 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

• B.Sc or more in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of experience working with various cloud…