Senior Software Engineer

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. Tigera's open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution.

Powering more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.

As our team grows, we are looking for colleagues who not only share our passion for this work and growing our company, but who will also strengthen our company values and help ensure that Tigera remains a great place to work. At our core, our focus is on our customers, who are the heroes of our story; on aiming high and staying nimble in how we get there; on continuous learning to drive our success; and on respecting, collaborating, and supporting each other on a daily basis.

If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you!

About Your Role

We are looking for passionate and skilled software engineers to join the Calico Cloud and AI team in our mission to secure the next generation of cloud-native applications. At the heart of our strategy is a set of open-source networking and security projects that define the new gold standard for application connectivity within large-scale cloud environments, such as Kubernetes, Docker, and related technologies. Building upon this open-source foundation, we are working on complementary commercial offerings as SaaS to help enterprises build and operate cloud-native applications and infrastructures, securely and at scale.

We are looking for a versatile Senior Software Engineer to help evolve our core SaaS platform and also turbocharge our move into autonomous AI agents. You will be joining a team that is highly engineering-focused with a culture that values diversity, collaboration, agility, and innovation, keeping us one step ahead in the exciting and fast moving cloud-native and AI technology space.

This role is hybrid based in Vancouver

Salary range: CA$125,000 to CA$150,000

You Will

• Be an active member of an engineering team working on tasks as part of release sprints
• Enhance and build new functionality in Golang
• Take responsibility (along with the team) for the entire development process of the features you are working on, including design, coding, testing, and releasing to production
  
  

You Have

• 6-8 years of product-oriented software engineering experience
• Experience with distributed systems development
• Hands-on experience with backend development languages like Golang (preferred), C, C++, Java, Kotlin, Python, etc.
• A drive to get things done in a highly collaborative, agile development environment
• A BS in CS or related/similar degree (equivalent experience may suffice)
  
  

Nice-to-Have

• LLM Orchestration: Experience building and deploying autonomous agentic workflows using frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, or similar to automate complex, multi-step processes.
• Tool Integration & RAG: Designed tool interfaces and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines that allow AI agents to securely interact with internal APIs, databases, and third-party systems.
• Production Reliability: Implement evaluation frameworks and observability layers to monitor, unit-test, and refine non-deterministic AI outputs, ensuring production-grade reliability and safety.
• Experience applying AI/ML to observability, automated troubleshooting, or security.
• Strong understanding of unsupervised ML and deep learning models and algorithms such Autoencoders used for anomaly detection.
• Past experience with using storage technologies such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or PostgreSQL
• Any experience with prometheus and grafana.
• Experience with one or more of the following areas and technologies: Kubernetes, Docker/containers, Networking.
  
  

With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.