Software Engineer (K8s + AWS + Any Programming language- Golang, PHP, Ruby)

Job Title: Software Engineer,

Department: Engineering

Location: Remote, India  

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company in India, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Acquia’s products run 100% on Amazon Web Services using EKS, EC2, CloudFormation, Terraform and various other technologies and best practices. Since each product is built and maintained by its own engineering team, the ideal candidate for this position would need to be proactive in familiarizing themselves with those services and have the ability to coordinate and collaborate with multiple teams.

About the Team: The Observability team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth functioning and performance optimization of all our systems. We are a dynamic team of engineers dedicated to providing centralized Observability solutions to empower all teams within the company. Acquia is seeking an Associate Software Engineer who can help lead our efforts to revolutionize the way we build, test, operate and monitor our cloud-based products and services. 

As a Software Engineer, you will…

• work on a wide range of core internal systems, tooling and automation around logging, monitoring and traceability
• work with your team to develop far reaching modules that have scalability and availability at their core
• contribute to our efforts to revolutionize the way we build, test, operate and monitor our cloud-based products and services
• maintain an understanding of system functionality and architecture, with a strong focus on the operational aspects of the service (availability, performance, change management, emergency response, capacity planning, etc)
• collaborate with your team members to review their work and have your work reviewed in turn
• work with other teams in deciding, developing integrations with other subsystems
• participate in Scrum software development lifecycle
• provide product support to internal and external stakeholders
• work in a team environment where your team owns and operates the services you build

You’ll enjoy this role if you…

• like solving complex challenges for scalable, low latency systems
• enjoy solutioning for a Cloud native environment
• enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders
• have a passion for DevOps

 What you’ll need to be successful…

• Have 3+ years of software development experience with time spent working on Cloud technologies (AWS, Google Compute, Azure)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes
• Understanding of programming languages such as Golang, PHP, Ruby or similar.
• Comfortable navigating unix/linux based operating systems
• Familiarity with Sumo Logic, New Relic, Dynatrace, Cloudwatch, Splunk, Nagios.
• Strong interest in building and operating distributed systems and/or service oriented architectures.
• Passion for Devops processes and tools (Jenkins), distributed configuration management systems (Ansible, Puppet) and maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting.

Extra credit if you…

• Certifications in relevant technologies (AWS, CKAD, CKA, etc)
• Have hands on experience with Docker, K8s or equivalent
• Have a mindset to automate repetitive tasks  

 

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.