What's this role about?

As a Staff Software Developer on Auvik's AI & Platform team, you'll be a hands-on technical leader building the AI-powered capabilities in our product. You'll work alongside a Staff Data Engineer (who owns the data foundation) and report to the Engineering Manager. Your focus is on the application and agentic AI layer: designing, building, and shipping the AI features that customers interact with. This is a code-heavy role with broad technical influence across the team.

What will I be doing?

• Design and build AI-powered product features, including LLM-based agents, intelligent automation, and predictive capabilities that operate on Auvik's operational data.
• Own complex technical problems end-to-end: architect solutions, write production-quality code, debug across systems, and ship reliably.
• Work closely with the Data Engineer to define what data the AI layer needs, in what shape, and at what freshness, and integrate against the retrieval and pipeline infrastructure they build.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate customer needs into well-scoped AI features that deliver real value.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging AI technologies (LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG patterns, fine-tuning approaches) and make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions.
• Lead by example in code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices. Mentor other developers on the team.
• Contribute to shared tooling, libraries, and patterns that accelerate AI development across the engineering org.

What are we looking for?

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with significant experience building and shipping production systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience building AI/ML-powered product features, including working with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, or agent frameworks.
• Proficiency in Go, Scala, or TypeScript (React/GraphQL). Experience with Python for ML workflows is a plus.
• Deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, and the ability to make sound architectural decisions in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot Workspace, Claude Code), including setting guardrails and verifying outputs.
• Strong communication skills. You'll work directly with AI engineers, product managers, and engineering leadership and need to move fluidly between technical and business conversations.
• A product mindset. You care about why something is being built and whether it solves a real customer problem.

Are there bonus points?

• Background in network management, monitoring, or infrastructure software.
• Experience with AI-driven automation, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics in an ops context.

We're actively hiring for this role and looking to bring someone great onto the team as soon as possible.

Hiring Process

At Auvik, our hiring process is designed to be personal, transparent, and human-led. Our Talent Acquisition Partners review all resumes, connect with candidates whose skills and experience aligns with the role, and stay in communication with you throughout your journey. If our interests align, you'll meet with a hiring manager, as well as additional members of the hiring team in follow-up conversations. All of your interviews will take place via Zoom.

Before meeting with a hiring manager, we also ask candidates to complete a 5-minute Predictive Index (PI) assessment. This helps us understand and match your strengths and work preferences with roles that will set you up for success.

We use AI tools to support administrative tasks in the hiring process; such as helping source candidates, drafting communications, and interview summaries, so our team can stay focused and present during conversations. We do not use AI tools to interview, screen or assess candidates; or determine who moves forward in the process. We debrief and consider the full context of every conversation before making hiring decisions. We believe hiring requires judgment that can be augmented but, not replaced by AI.

Compensation Details

At Auvik, our compensation philosophy is to be market competitive, reward performance, reflect our commitment to equity and maintain transparency with our employees. We have defined job levels and compensation ranges for each of our markets we employ, based on research from various sources of market data, which are reviewed on a regular basis.

The hiring range for this position is listed below. Compensation offered for candidates in this role is based on a number of factors including job-related skills, knowledge, and experience. These factors may cause your compensation to vary within the range outlined below.

In addition to cash compensation, all full-time employees are granted stock options to share in Auvik's future successes. Auvik employees are eligible to participate in additional benefits and programs including our comprehensive health and dental benefits plan, Wellness spending account, GRSP matching program, flexible paid time off, paid parental leave program, and are eligible for remote working subsidies.

Salary Range:

$160,000-$208,000 CAD