Cylance (BlackBerry) · Ottawa
Software Engineering
Worker Sub-Type:
Regular
Job Description:
This is a hybrid role, requires 4 days work from Ottawa office and 1 day work from home.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
About Radar
BlackBerry Radar is a rapidly growing IoT platform that enables real-time tracking and analytics for thousands of trailers, containers, and high-value assets across North America. Learn more.
Our platform has achieved strong market traction, with a fast-expanding device footprint and a lean, highly skilled engineering team tackling challenges in big data, cloud architecture, and performance optimization as adoption accelerates.
Radar is at a critical inflection point. We’ve established product-market fit, our install base is scaling quickly, and our platform processes more data each month than ever before. We’re investing heavily in next-generation architecture to support the next five years of innovation and growth.
Why This Role Matters
Every new customer adds more devices, more data, and more opportunities to innovate. We’re expanding our engineering team to build the next generation of Radar’s cloud platform, focusing on:
High-volume telemetry ingestion and big data pipelines
Cloud re-architecture for scalability and resilience
Advanced reporting and analytics
API expansion and next-gen customer experiences
Performance and reliability engineering
Modern DevOps tooling in a microservices environment
Tech Stack
Backend: Node.js, Express, NATS
Data: MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
Reporting: Flink, Cube.js, StarRocks, Iceberg
Cloud: AWS
Frontend: React
DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
What You’ll Do
Build and optimize backend microservices using Node.js, Express, NATS, Redis, MySQL, and Elasticsearch on AWS
Work on data-intensive, real-time systems ingesting telemetry at scale
Contribute to front-end development using React
Influence architectural decisions and technical direction across the platform
Ensure reliability through automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability
Collaborate in a high-trust, engineering-first culture where your work truly matters
What You Bring
Required:
4-5 years of experience in software development
Strong backend development experience
SQL + NoSQL experience (MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis)
Experience building microservices and event-driven systems
Comfort with AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and modern cloud tooling
Ability to design and reason about complex system architectures
Curiosity, ownership, and willingness to dive into unfamiliar problems
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Preferred:
Proficiency in JavaScript
Advanced React experience
Background in IoT, telematics, or large-scale distributed systems
Why Engineers Love Working at Radar
High impact — what you build directly drives customer value and product success
Small team, big reach — startup-style ownership with enterprise stability
Real engineering challenges — scaling a high-volume IoT platform is genuinely hard and deeply rewarding
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Benefits:
The BlackBerry Employee Benefits programs offer a wide range of benefits that support your physical, financial and personal well-being. BlackBerry remains committed to offering affordable benefits including coverage for medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, retirement, employee share purchase program and paid-time-off to those that meet the eligibility requirements.
Disclosure of Position Status:
This job posting is part of a general recruitment effort without a guaranteed position
Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence:
We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select applicants at any stage of our recruitment process. All applications are reviewed and evaluated by our hiring team.