As of November 7, 2026, Jobsy lists 8 principal software engineer jobs in Vancouver, BC. The most active employers are Questrade Financial Group, Microsoft and Broadcom Canada ULC. Skills often requested: leadership, communication skills, computer science and python.
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Electronic Arts
20+ YOECandidates need 20+ years of professional AAA or real-time software engineering experience, multiple shipped AAA titles and deep modern C++ skills. Strong performance optimization, multidisciplinary engine knowledge and experience with agentic AI developer tooling are also needed.
C++, Frostbite, Unreal Engine 5, Unity, Godot
Microsoft: Every company has a mission.
6+ YOECandidates need a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 6+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent experience. Microsoft also prefers large-scale distributed systems, agentic systems and AI evaluation experience, and requires passing the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Copilot, Python, C#, Java, JavaScript
Microsoft: Every company has a mission.
6+ YOECandidates need a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field plus 6+ years of engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python, or equivalent experience. Preferred qualifications include native mobile or client platform work, SDK architecture, and real-time communications experience.
Windows, iOS, Android
Microsoft: Every company has a mission.
5+ YOECandidates need a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field with 6+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent experience, plus 5+ years building enterprise distributed systems. Coding skill in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python is required.
Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DB, Power BI
Microsoft: Every company has a mission.
6+ YOECandidates need a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience, plus 6+ years of coding experience and 5+ years in enterprise distributed systems. Microsoft Cloud background check and security screening are required.
Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Power Query, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Synapse Analytics
Avigilon Corporation
10+ YOECandidates need a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field and 10+ years of software engineering experience, including extensive C++ work on large codebases. Strong knowledge of distributed systems, CI/CD, test automation, observability and databases such as Postgres is required.
C++, C#, .NET, Rust, Azure, Postgres
Avigilon Corporation
15+ YOECandidates need 15+ years of software development experience and 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems. They must have deep C/C++ and cloud language skills, AWS or GCP expertise, and experience leading architecture for 50+ developers.
AWS, GCP, Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis
Redis
8+ YOE3+ MgmtCandidates need 8+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering on large distributed systems and 3+ years in technical leadership. Expertise in Python, Go and Rust, cloud platforms and modern data infrastructure, plus experience with enterprise customers in regulated industries, is required.
Kafka, Flink, Redis, Spark, AWS, GCP
Questrade Financial Group (5), Microsoft (4), Broadcom Canada ULC (2), insightsoftware, LLC (2) and OpenTable (2).
Postings most often mention leadership, communication skills, computer science, python, collaboration, ci/cd, aws and typescript.
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