Software Engineer (Golang)

Acquia Platform Messaging Team - Software Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Remote, India

Acquia is an open source digital experience company. We provide the world's most ambitious brands with technology that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia we believe in the power of community and collaboration - giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.

Headquartered in Boston, we have been named as one of North America’s fastest growing software companies as reported by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine, and have been rated a leader by the analyst community and named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future of the web, and we want you to be a part of it.

Acquia is seeking a Software Engineer who can help lead our efforts to revolutionize the way we build, test, operate and monitor our cloud-based products and services. As a Platform Messaging Software Engineer, you will be working on a wide range of core internal systems, tooling and automation. You will work with your fellow engineers, Product Engineering, Operations and Customer Success teams to identify inefficiencies in our current services and processes, then propose and implement changes to streamline or automate remediation.

As a Software Engineer, you will…

• work with your team to develop far reaching modules 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 developing services in the Kubernetes Environment.
  
  

What You’ll Need To Be Successful…

• 3+ years of experience in design and Software Development Background.
• Have hands-on experience in Go, Bash/PHP and navigating unix/linux based operating systems
• Have hands-on software development experience with Cloud technologies (AWS preferred)
• Have hands-on experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes
• Understand pub-sub messaging services like SQS/SNS, Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.
• Understand design patterns; writing clean, maintainable code, unit test
• Have good oral and written communication skills
  
  

Extra credit if you…

• Have hands-on experience in Python.
• Have hands-on experience writing Kubernetes operators
• Have hands-on experience with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Have hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems and/or service oriented architectures
• Hold AWS certifications
• Have exposure to SSO/Identity management solutions
• 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.