Acquia Cloud Edge Team - Software Engineer

Acquia empowers the worlds 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, & IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose & deploy digital products & services that engage customers, enhance conversions, & help businesses stand out.

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

Acquia runs one of the world's largest Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. Our Drupal optimized cloud runs on over 18,000 AWS instances & delivers billions of page views per month, running some of the largest & most mission-critical websites in the world. We are seeking exceptional professionals who desire to deliver world-class performance & reliability while building powerful tools that enable our customers effortlessly to scale their web applications. At Acquia, we are obsessive about providing our customers with security, availability, & scalability that is second to none & are looking for engineers who are equally passionate.

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

As a Software Engineer, you will...

• Participate in designing & implementing solutions for modernizing Acquia infrastructure & drive adoption of Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Technologies 
• Design & implement end-to-end container management solution with Kubernetes, Docker
• Develop secure & performant, world-class modern APIs & Workflows
• Design & develop Go based Kubernetes operators using the kube-builder SDK
• Debug technical issues inside a very deep & 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 & external stakeholders.

Youll enjoy this role if you

• Strive to consistently achieve excellence, not only for yourself, but for your teammates. 
• Are passionate about creating & maintaining high quality software that provides direct value to customers.
• Enjoy refactoring code as you strive for continuous improvement.
• Enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders.
• Have a passion for User Experience.

What youll need to be successful

• 2+ years of experience in design & Software Development Background & 1+ years of experience in working with Containers & Cloud-Native Development 
• Proficient with Kubernetes architecture with hands-on production experience with container technologies & the tools & challenges around them 
• Experience in developing applications using programming languages such as Go, Ruby & shell scripting
• Design & develop Go based Kubernetes operators using the kube-builder SDK
• Proficient with object oriented programming & 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 & Cloudformation 
• Experience operating with TCP/IP, load balancing, security & operating production environments
• Strong Knowledge on the network layers, varnish & nginx
• Strong oral & written communication skills 
• Strong team collaboration & leadership skills 
• Familiarity with Agile processes (Kanban, Scrum, etc.) 

Extra credit if you have

• Experience working with any CDN such as - CloudFront, CloudFlare etc.
• Experience in monitoring & observability with Sumologic/Prometheus/Grafana.
• Experience working with helm, ingress, cert-manager, autoscaling, external-dns & logging operator in Kubernetes
• AWS/CKAD professional certification.

Qualifications: 

• BS in Computer Science (preferred), or a comparable field of study, or equivalent practical experience 

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees & their families maintain a healthy body & mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, & much more!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.