Description
Senior Software Engineer
Team: Development
Location: Canada
Commitment: Full Time
Workplace Type: remote
Salary:
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We’re looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer to join our high-performing Engineering team at Everbridge. In this role, you’ll architect and build scalable, resilient services that power our critical event management platform. Your work will directly impact the reliability, performance, and security of systems used by governments, enterprises, and communities around the world.
What you'll do:
- Design, build, and maintain high-availability APIs and backend services
- Ensure system scalability, reliability, and security through thoughtful architecture and code design
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features end-to-end, from concept through deployment
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that meets performance and compliance standards
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure high system uptime
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to ongoing improvements in architecture, process, and tooling
What you'll bring:
- 5+ years of backend development experience
- Proficiency in one or more modern backend languages (Java, Go, Node.js, or Python)
- Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and cloud deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset
Bonus if you have:
- Experience working in distributed, event-driven, or microservices architectures
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
- Understanding of DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Everbridge ranges from $98,000 - $140,000 CAD and may also include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Everbridge offers a wide range of best-in-class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental care, mental health benefits, disability income benefits, life and AD&D insurance, retirement savings plan with employer match, and paid time off.
Fair Chance Statement US & Canada
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in compliance with all applicable Federal, Provincial/State and Local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act and any local County Fair Chance Ordinance (or local equivalent). Pursuant to these and other relevant regulations, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the law.
For roles subject to background checks, the following material job duties may be affected by an applicant’s criminal history:
- Access to sensitive or confidential information, such as financial records, proprietary data, or client information.
- Management of cash, company funds, or other valuable assets.
- Work in environments requiring heightened security measures.
- Compliance with contractual or regulatory requirements specific to the position.
We evaluate each applicant's criminal history individually, considering its nature, timing, and relevance to the specific job duties, while maintaining our commitment to fair hiring practices and promoting workplace equity.
About Everbridge
Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on Twitter. Everbridge… Empowering Resilience
Everbridge is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, or sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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