Software Engineer

Summary

Join Acquia's Cloud Edge Team as a Software Engineer and contribute to modernizing our infrastructure. You will design and implement solutions using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, develop secure and performant APIs, and debug complex technical issues within our large-scale platform. This role requires strong experience with Kubernetes, container technologies, and AWS services. Collaboration with multiple teams and stakeholders is essential. Acquia offers competitive benefits, including healthcare coverage, wellness programs, and paid time off.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in design and Software Development Background and 1+ years of experience in working with Containers and Cloud-Native Development
• Proficient with Kubernetes architecture with hands-on production experience with container technologies and the tools and challenges around them
• Experience in developing applications using programming languages such as Go , Ruby and shell scripting
• Design and develop Go based Kubernetes operators using the kube-builder SDK
• Proficient with object oriented programming and microservices design patterns
• Proficient with service discovery, networking in Kubernetes or equivalent, monitoring, logging, scheduling
• Experience working with AWS services such as - EC2, EBS, ALB, EKS, VPC, S3, WAF etc
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins (preferred), Bamboo, Gitlab
• Experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and Cloudformation
• Experience operating with TCP/IP, load balancing, security and operating production environments
• Strong Knowledge on the network layers, varnish and nginx
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong team collaboration and leadership skills
• Familiarity with Agile processes (Kanban, Scrum, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Participate in designing and implementing solutions for modernizing Acquia infrastructure and drive adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Technologies
• Design and implement end-to-end container management solution with Kubernetes, Docker
• Develop secure and performant, world-class modern APIs and Workflows
• Design and develop Go based Kubernetes operators using the kube-builder SDK
• Debug technical issues inside a very deep and complex technical stack involving containers, microservices, AWS services across the different layers of a web stack
• Work with other teams in deciding, developing integrations with other subsystems
• Provide product support to internal and external stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with any CDN such as - CloudFront, CloudFlare etc
• Experience in monitoring and observability with Sumologic/Prometheus/Grafana
• Experience working with helm, ingress, cert-manager, autoscaling, external-dns and logging operator in Kubernetes
• AWS/CKAD professional certification
• BS in Computer Science (preferred), or a comparable field of study, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare coverage
• Wellness programs
• Take it when you need it time off
• Parental leave
• Recognition programs