Software Engineer (Golang + K8s)

About Acquia

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

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

Role Overview

Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer, you will

• 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

You'll enjoy this role if you

• like solving complex challenges for scalable, low latency systems
• enjoy solutioning for a Cloud native environment
• enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders
• have a passion for DevOps

What you'll need to be successful

• 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 Azure-AWS 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.

Extra credit if you

• Certifications in relevant technologies (AWS, CKAD, CKA, etc)
• Have hands on experience with Docker, K8s or equivalent
• Have a mindset to automate repetitive tasks

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