Ottawa Hybrid Full-time CAD 130,000 – 170,000 / year

Sectigo is hiring a Principal Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Design and build high-performance distributed services in Golang.
  • Scale systems for certificate issuance, validation, and lifecycle operations.
  • Define and deliver production-grade reliability (availability, resilience, observability).
  • Drive early architecture decisions impacting scalability, failure behavior, and cost.
  • Translate evolving standards into real-world, production-ready systems.
  • Collaborate with ecosystem partners and contribute upstream to open-source projects.
  • Ensure systems are deployable, operable, and portable beyond single environments.
  • Additional tasks associated with this position may be assigned in response to company initiatives and business needs.

Requirements

  • Builder of foundational systems with strong ownership mindset.
  • Comfortable operating at scale and making high-impact architectural decisions.
  • Pragmatic, disciplined, and focused on production outcomes.
  • Able to collaborate across teams and influence beyond organizational boundaries.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Ottawa

Additional Information

  • This is a full-time position.
  • Working in a hybrid model, reporting to Ottawa office at least 3-4 days a week.
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Sectigo
Sectigo builds and provides cybersecurity solutions, specializing in digital certificates and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) services to secure websites, devices, and applications.
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Posted 13 days ago