Software Engineer

Acquia
Summary
Join Acquia's Platform Integrations team as a Software Engineer and contribute to developing new capabilities leveraging Acquia's cloud platform and core services. You will work on core internal systems, microservices, and contribute to revolutionizing how cloud-based products and services are built, tested, operated, and monitored. Collaborate with team members, review code, and work with other teams on integrations. This role involves participating in the Scrum lifecycle, providing product support, and working in a team environment where your team owns and operates the services you build. The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex challenges for scalable systems, working in a cloud-native environment, and collaborating with multiple stakeholders. Acquia offers competitive benefits.
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in software development, with a focus on designing, building, deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining scalable microservices
- Proven experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or AzureβAWS experience is highly preferred
- Expertise in Go (Golang) with a strong understanding of its application in backend service development
- Practical experience developing applications for Kubernetes and working within microservices-based architectures
- Comfortable working in Unix/Linux environments
- Strong interest in designing, building, and operating distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
- Enthusiastic about DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins), configuration management systems (e.g. Ansible, Puppet), and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a team-oriented mindset
Responsibilities
- Work on a wide range of core internal systems, tooling and automations
- Work with your team to develop far reaching microservices 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications in relevant technologies (AWS, CKAD, CKA, etc)
- Have hands on experience with Docker, K8s or equivalent
- Have a mindset to automate repetitive tasks
Benefits
- Competitive healthcare coverage
- Wellness programs
- Take it when you need it time off
- Parental leave
- Recognition programs