Golang

Summary

Join Gruntwork as a Terragrunt Subject Matter Expert (SME) contractor and contribute to the open source Terragrunt project, an IaC orchestrator for OpenTofu/Terraform. This role involves Golang-based development, enhancing features, fixing bugs, and improving workflows. You will also provide world-class customer support, addressing tickets and knowledge base posts, maintaining GitHub issues, and automating solutions. As a community member, you'll contribute to other open source projects and assist community members. This contractor position offers flexible hours (25-35 hours/week) and a potential path to full-time employment. The role requires strong software engineering skills (5+ years experience), significant Golang experience, testing expertise, and open-source contribution experience. You should be comfortable with OpenTofu/Terraform and have excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• Have a strong background in software engineering, with 5+ years of experience
• Have significant Golang experience and know how to improve Golang codebases
• Be a skilled tester with experience testing Golang codebases, including setting up continuous integration
• Have experience contributing to open source software
• Have experience taking ownership of software: Working with stakeholders to define features, planning the work, and shipping according to plan
• Have experience delegating responsibility for building software
• Be comfortable using OpenTofu / Terraform to manage real-world infrastructure, and have preferably used Terragrunt to manage IaC at scale
• Have strong communication skills in English
• Be comfortable expressing business problems and solutions verbally and in writing
• Be comfortable with asynchronous collaboration with a remote team
• Be interested in working a flexible number of hours that averages ~20-30 hours/week and are available ~48 weeks per year to work those hours
• Be comfortable working during hours that fall within 3-4 hours of the Eastern Time Zone
• Respond to enterprise support and maintenance requests within a 1-2 business day SLA
• Have read our company values and are aligned with them

Responsibilities

• Develop Golang-based Terragrunt features
• Enhance existing Terragrunt features
• Fix bugs in Terragrunt
• Improve Terragrunt workflows
• Help resolve customer tickets and knowledge base posts
• Keep GitHub issues and external PRs up to date
• Help create and maintain a clean GitHub Project backlog
• Automate and document solutions for future users
• Contribute to other Gruntwork open source projects
• Help members of the Terragrunt Discord server
• Review, improve, and merge community contributions

Preferred Qualifications

• Have extensive AWS foundations experience
• Have extensive OpenTofu/Terraform experience
• Have a passion for DevOps best practices

Benefits

• Flexible hours (25-35 hours/week)
• Potential path to full-time employment