Backend Engineer - Data Ingestion & APIs, Kitchener, ON

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About the role: Backend Engineer for Data Ingestion, APIs, and Connectors

Do you enjoy building reliable backend systems that transform messy real-world data into usable, secure, and scalable platform capabilities? Are you excited about APIs, event-driven services, ingestion pipelines, and integration patterns for AI and robotics?

We are seeking a Backend Engineer to build the ingestion and API backbone of the Canada Physical AI platform. In this role, you will develop services that bring together customer data, robotics system data, vision streams, metadata, and platform workflows into a consistent and reusable architecture. You will work closely with platform architects, robotics integration engineers, AI/ML specialists, and frontend developers to create production-grade services for industrial robotics data and platform operations.

What will you do?

• Develop backend services for data ingestion, normalization, transformation, and secure storage.
• Build APIs for data onboarding, metadata access, workflow interaction, dataset management, and external integration.
• Implement reusable connector and adapter patterns for integrating customer systems, robotics sources, and internal platform services.
• Support authentication, authorization, auditability, and customer boundary handling in platform workflows.
• Build event-driven and asynchronous services for scalable data processing and pipeline execution.
• Collaborate on data contracts, schema evolution, and service interfaces with architects and AI/ML engineers.
• Help ensure platform reliability through robust error handling, observability hooks, and maintainable service design.
• Contribute to code reviews, engineering standards, and automated testing practices.
• Support the transition from early pilot implementations to more production-ready backend components.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong experience with backend development in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience building REST and/or gRPC APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud-native services.
• Good understanding of distributed systems, service integration, and scalable backend design.
• Practical software engineering skills including testing, debugging, documentation, and clean code.
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.

What sets you apart:

• Experience with robotics data, device integrations, or industrial data ingestion scenarios.
• Experience with data pipelines, message queues, object storage, or metadata services.
• Familiarity with authentication patterns, customer data segregation, or compliance-sensitive architectures.
• Exposure to AI/ML platforms, annotation systems, or platform-style products.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Build the founding team and platform capability for a strategic Physical AI initiative in Canada.
• Innovation: Work at the intersection of robotics, AI, industrial software, workflow orchestration, and platform engineering.
• Leadership: Shape the direction, culture, and operating model of a new strategic engineering organization.
• Collaboration: Partner with leading global research, product, and engineering teams.
• Growth: Help define how Physical AI platform capabilities scale from data foundations to runtime-enabled industrial applications.

Salary : Salary is commensurate with experience, and base salary ranges between $100,000 CAD - $130,000 CAD, excluding bonus and benefits. In addition to base salary, this role includes eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus of 10% of base salary, based on Company performance metrics. 

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2025.

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Canada is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more liveable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast-to-coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at

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