Senior Software Engineer GolangPHP KubernetesAWS

Job Title : Senior Software Engineer

About Us

Acquia is an open source digital experience company. We provide the worlds most ambitious brands with technology that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia we believe in the power of community and collaboration giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.

Headquartered in Boston we have been named as one of North Americas fastest growing software companies as reported by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine and have been rated a leader by the analyst community and named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future of the web and we want you to be a part of it.

Role Overview

Acquia is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team focused on creating capabilities that leverage Acquias cloud platform and core services for our NodeJS product. Acquia product enables our customers to host their JS application in Acquia cloud and it is built on top of AWS leveraging technologies like Kubernetes K8S Operators Argo Workflows Golang and PHP. We thrive on innovation collaboration and an agile mindset and processes. An ability to quickly prototype learn and iterate on concepts is critical for this team is part of Foundation Services group and builds product offerings on top of Foundation Infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing kubernetes operator and argo workflow based application.
• Developing and operating services written in Golang PHP and Ruby.
• Debugging applications hosted on Ubuntu or Kubernetes clusters on AWS.
• Working to connect systems and services using microservices and APIs design patterns.
• Partnering and collaboration with other engineering teams like UI API DevOps Quality Engineering and various subject matter experts
• Influencing and leading product and engineering teams with fresh ideas code and communication as a domain expert
• Driving high quality delivery and deployment of new features and systems capable of working with existing systems and processes
• Diagramming and documenting current and future architectural plans sufficiently that necessary stakeholders can understand how new technologies introduced will work
• Owning and operating the services you create in accordance with defined service level objectives.
• Working in an Agile Scrum team building shippable product increments that meet the goals set with Product Owners.
• Collaborate with the architecture team to ensure the platform we are building is consistent with the overarching architectural goals at Acquia
• Ensure software systems comply with contractual RTO and RPO requirements
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

You will be successful if you:

• Are a polyglot and quick learner playing different roles in hosting product.
• First hand experience creating applications with Kubernetes Docker Argo Workflows Golang Redis Kubernetes Operators and AWS services.
• Very comfortable in the entire Linux (preferably Ubuntu) stack infrastructure as code and tools for automation.
• Ability to break down complex problems into smaller decisions with defined options and datadriven analysis
• Executes projects effectively and efficiently as a leader on the team
• Uses sound rationale for problem identification and decisionmaking and can transfer that knowledge to other engineers
• Works in a collaborative and supportive manner with not only his team but internal stakeholders through clean communication of complex technical concepts
• Strives to consistently achieve excellence in work delivered not only for themselves but for their teammates.
• Passionate about creating and maintaining high quality software with testdriven development continuous refactoring and an eye for simplicity.
• Influences and leads by example delivering fault tolerant services in multiple programming languages including Golang (primarily) PHP and JavaScript.
• Comfortable under pressure and welcomes new challenges

Requirements

• 5 years (senior) of experience in different programming languages Golang/ PHP
• 1 year(s) of experience with Kubernetes application development and microservices architectures
• 1 years of experience with any cloud and containerbased systems engineering like AWS/GCP/Azure
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes operator and controller patterns
• Software development experience including designing building deploying troubleshooting and maintaining highly scalable and fault tolerant data pipelines and microservices
• Experience with unit test cases
• Solid Linux OS system management specially Ubuntu and Amazon Linux.
• Experience with database technology like MySQL Redis

Nice to have

• Experience with Ruby and Drupal
• Experience working with Snowflake.

Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to quality.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently and quickly adapt to new technologies.
• A passion for continuous learning and personal growth especially through online training books and podcasts to keep pace with the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of thriving in a fastpaced environment.
• Balance critical thinking with creative problemsolving and make informed decisions using both quantitative and qualitative reasoning.

Acquia is proud to provide bestinclass benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage wellness programs take it when you need it time off parental leave recognition programs and much more!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race color religion caste creed national origin age sex marital status ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status gender identity or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.