About the role
About Kaseya Kaseya is the leading provider of AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software, serving Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and internal IT organizations worldwide. Our comprehensive platform helps organizations efficiently manage, secure, and automate their IT environments, driving operational efficiency and long-term business success. Backed by Insight Partners, a leading global software investor, Kaseya has experienced sustained double-digit growth and continues to expand its global footprint. Today, Kaseya supports customers in more than 20 countries and manages over 15 million endpoints worldwide. Founded in 2000, Kaseya was built by builders - and we're still building. We look for people who create rather than wait, who see a hard problem and lean in, and who treat challenges as raw material. At Kaseya, everyone plays a role in shaping the future of IT: whether you're in engineering, product, sales, marketing, customer support, or operations, your work helps protect, defend, and optimize IT environments across the globe. We're building teams that grow, perform, and make an impact. If you're driven by the itch to make things better - a product, a process, a career - you'll fit right in. At Kaseya, we don't just raise the bar. We build it. Senior Software Engineer – Java, Distributed Systems & DevTest Why Kaseya? Join a fast-growing company transforming the IT management and cybersecurity industry. At Kaseya, we are modernizing how software is designed, built, tested, and operated by combining strong engineering fundamentals with AI-native development practices. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help build scalable cloud-based software while improving engineering quality through automated testing, modern development practices, and AI-assisted engineering. Join the Kaseya growth rocket ship and see how we are #ChangingLives! Job Summary We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong Java backend development experience and a passion for building reliable, well-tested software. This is a hands-on software engineering role focused on developing and operating distributed backend services, APIs, and SaaS platform capabilities, with additional responsibility for improving automated testing, test infrastructure, and engineering quality. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with practical experience designing automated tests, building reusable testing frameworks, and integrating quality engineering into the software development lifecycle. You will contribute to technical design, implement production software, troubleshoot complex issues, and use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and codebase modernization. Roles & Responsibilities Software Engineering & Development
Design, develop, test, deploy, and support Java-based backend services, APIs, and distributed applications.
Build scalable, reliable, and maintainable software using Java, Spring Boot, and modern backend engineering practices.
Contribute to architecture decisions, technical designs, and implementation of complex engineering initiatives.
Develop and maintain microservices, integrations, and event-driven applications.
Remain hands-on through coding, debugging, code reviews, testing, and production troubleshooting.
Improve application performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Participate in modernization initiatives involving refactoring, dependency upgrades, and improvements to existing systems.
DevTest & Quality Engineering
Design and implement automated testing solutions for backend services, APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.
Develop reusable test frameworks, testing libraries, utilities, and supporting automation infrastructure.
Build automated unit, integration, regression, API, contract, and system-level tests.
Improve test coverage, testability, and release confidence across existing and new software components.
Develop automated validation for asynchronous processing, event-driven workflows, failure recovery, and distributed-system behaviour.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery workflows.
Investigate test failures, identify root causes, and improve the reliability and maintainability of automated testing.
Work closely with engineers to establish effective testing strategies and reduce defects reaching production.
AI-Native Engineering
Leverage AI coding tools, including Claude Code or equivalent technologies, to support development, testing, debugging, and codebase analysis.
Use AI-assisted techniques to accelerate automated test creation, code generation, refactoring, and documentation.
Review and validate AI-generated code and tests to ensure correctness, maintainability, and reliability.
Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity through automation and AI-assisted workflows.
Production Engineering & Delivery
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated builds, testing, deployment, and release processes.
Troubleshoot production issues using logs, metrics, tracing, and application diagnostics.
Support cloud-native services operating across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
Collaborate with DevOps, Platform, Product, Security, and other engineering teams to improve software delivery.
Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and mentoring of other engineers.
Take ownership of engineering solutions from design and implementation through deployment and production support.
Required Qualifications
7+ years of professional software engineering experience developing backend applications, SaaS platforms, or distributed systems.
4+ years of hands-on Java backend development experience.
Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and backend service development.
Experience designing, implementing, debugging, and supporting production software.
Experience with microservices, distributed systems, or event-driven architectures.
Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, concurrency, asynchronous processing, and system design.
Hands-on experience developing automated tests for backend services, APIs, or distributed applications.
Experience building or extending automated testing frameworks, test libraries, or reusable testing utilities.
Strong understanding of unit, integration, regression, API, and system-level testing.
Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated test execution.
Experience building and operating production applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience troubleshooting application failures, debugging code, and investigating production issues.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools to support coding, testing, debugging, or software maintenance.
Ability to independently own technical deliverables from design through production support.
Preferred Qualifications
Deep experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, or similar backend frameworks.
Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other distributed messaging technologies.
Experience testing asynchronous systems, event-driven architectures, and distributed workflows.
Experience with JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers, REST Assured, WireMock, or equivalent testing technologies.
Experience developing reusable automation frameworks or improving automated test infrastructure.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerized testing environments.
Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or other relational databases.
Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent CI/CD technologies.
Experience implementing automated quality gates, test reporting, and deployment validation.
Experience with performance, load, resilience, or reliability testing.
Experience improving observability, monitoring, and production diagnostics.
Experience using Claude Code or other AI coding agents for development, automated test generation, debugging, and codebase modernization.
Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to technical standards across a development team.
What Success Looks Like A successful Senior Software Engineer at Kaseya:
Builds: Delivers reliable, scalable Java backend services and software capabilities.
Owns: Takes responsibility for software from technical design through production operation.
Tests: Builds meaningful automated testing capabilities that improve product quality and release confidence.
Improves: Strengthens testability, reliability, performance, and maintainability across existing systems.
Accelerates: Uses AI-assisted development practices to improve delivery speed and automated test coverage.
Mentors: Helps establish strong engineering and quality practices across the team.
Additional Information Kaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.Additional informationKaseya provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, age, ancestry, gender, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
About Kaseya
Kaseya is a leading provider of IT automation software for IT service providers and public and private sector IT organizations. Kaseya's IT automation platform allows IT professionals to proactively monitor, manage, and maintain distributed IT infrastructures remotely, easily, and efficiently with one integrated web-based platform.
Kaseya's integrated web-based platform is complete, powerful, secure, and easy to deploy and administer. The Kaseya managed service platform is designed for IT administrators who need to reduce complexity and increase productivity, and managed service providers that want to pass those benefits to their customers and increase their own profit margins.
Features:
Our IT Automation Software is easy to integrate and implement. The software saves users time and increases staff productivity of businesses. This decreases production errors and increases productivity, allowing users to focus their time on the needs of their clients. Kaseya gives businesses the tools and technology to completely automate and improve their IT services.
Kaseya's K2 Patch Management Software can eliminate time-consuming tasks such as updating and securing networks in multiple locations and domains. With K2, IT professionals will be able to automatically keep servers, workstations, and remote computers updated with the latest security patches and software updates. Our patch management feature is able to make automatic and recurring patch scans, approve or deny patches, automate easy and fast patch deployment, interactively manage patches, flexibly configure patch management, and give comprehensive, scheduled reports.
With Kaseya's Audit and Inventory feature, you are able to track every system you are managing. With this feature, we are able to work with inventory quickly with every workstation and mobile computer on each network. Tracking every system can be done remotely at any location. The Audit and Inventory feature lets you have complete hardware and software inventory across the network.
Kaseya's System Monitoring Software provides user-defined monitoring for all the managed systems on the user's network. With the help of automated alerts, the user receives instant notification of changes and/or problems. The easy and fast set-up gets the software up and running in minutes with no software to install. It monitors servers, workstations, remote computers, Windows Event Logs, and applications. The software's automated LAN discovery and comprehensive reports keep the organization running smoothly and help ensure network security and productivity.
Our PC Remote Access with Live Connect is a fast and secure solution for any network's machines. IT professionals can access servers and workstations with ease without affecting the productivity of other users. Kaseya works on a web-based management platform which allows a single machine to have full control over all endpoints. Live Connect has the tools to do anything and everything with an agent directly.
Kaseya provides Remote Backup Software and disaster recovery for servers, desktops, and workstations. Our remote backup software offers protection, security, and peace of mind for businesses that want to ensure the recoverability of their electronic data. Our backup provides real-time programmed disk remote backup, file-level remote backup, disk imaging, monitoring, and bare metal restore.
Our Endpoint Security Software advises your system's spyware and adware to review any unwanted applications. For example, if there is something detected and pops up as a warning, anti-virus software will block and remove access to that specific program.
The Kaseya IT Management Monitoring Platform provides proactive, user-defined monitoring with instant notification of problems or changes. Receive a system alert when critical servers go down, users alter their configuration, or a possible security threat occurs. We provide IT professionals with the tools they need to proactively manage their systems and keep the organization running efficiently.
With Kaseya's Remote Control Software, IT professionals can quickly access servers, workstations, and mobile computers. Kaseya G1 is able to work behind firewalls and NAT as well. The remote control software can increase productivity and responsiveness by allowing access to computers from anywhere with a standard web browser.
Kaseya's Desktop Migration feature gives users a 3-step process in order to swap users on an existing computer. Kaseya desktop migration backs up all files, restores previous account information, and migrates single users or multiple users for one machine or many machines on a scheduled basis. Kaseya users never need to wonder what state each machine is in during the migration process.
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Job details
Location
Toronto, ON
Funding
Total raised
$500M
Last stage
Growth
Investors
Founders
Mark Sutherland
Co-Founder
Paul Wong
Co-Founder
Fred Voccola
Co-Founder & Former CEO (now Vice Chairman)
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.