Senior Software Development Engineer - Backend

Summary

Join GoDaddy's Control Plane team as a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and orchestrate hosting products. You will design and build key components of a PaaS platform for WordPress, collaborate with various teams, participate in Scrum ceremonies, and contribute to high-visibility projects. The role requires 5+ years in software engineering with experience in large-scale distributed applications, cloud computing (AWS preferred), Docker, CDK, CI/CD, and testing. Familiarity with container orchestration, WordPress, and specific AWS services is preferred. GoDaddy offers various benefits, including paid time off, retirement savings, bonuses, equity grants, health benefits, and parental leave.

Requirements

• 5+ years in software engineering, focusing on large-scale distributed applications or solutions
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go and PHP
• 3+ years of cloud computing experience, preferably with AWS
• Experience with Docker, CDK, and deploying code using CI/CD technologies like GitHub Actions and Jenkins
• Strong skills in writing unit, integration, and smoke tests, as well as automation of processes from build tools to monitoring
• Familiarity with both relational and NoSQL databases and a strong focus on code quality and high development standards

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of designing and building key components of a PaaS platform for running WordPress in a containerized, auto-scaling environment
• Collaborate with engineers from the multiple teams, SREs, product managers, and architects to deliver high-quality solutions
• Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies and work with remote colleagues across the globe
• Contribute to projects with C-suite level visibility and become a part of one of the most heavily invested areas in the organization
• Work on exciting projects like building tooling to migrate 1 million applications, unifying workflows on AWS step functions, and improving the platform's provisioning time, stability, and scalability

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Nomad or Kubernetes
• Experience with WordPress and AWS services such as S3, API Gateway, Lambda, ECS
• Experience working in agile teams and a continuous drive for learning and improving

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes)
• Bonus/incentive eligibility
• Equity grants
• Participation in our employee stock purchase plan
• Competitive health benefits
• Other family-friendly benefits including parental leave