Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

What You Should Know About This Role:

Develop Multi-Tenant Cloud Platform that caters to running all Guidewire applications and services (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/guidewire-cloud-why-hybrid-tenancy-is-the-right-choice-56a0ff176032, https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/guidewire-cloud-why-hybrid-tenancy-is-the-right-choice-part-2-of-2-ba22c9888bb8
Deeply involved in design and development of GWCP/ATMOS - infrastructure as code using technologies such as EKS (Kubernetes), Terraform, Golang. In addition handle Observability of the Platform (logs, metrics and traces). (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/log-management-and-guidewire-cloud-platform-observability-73a033a34e9a)
Design and develop Platform services that solves problems such as Developer Experience, Authentication, Authorization using Java, Spring Boot
Engineer quality, scalability, availability, and security into your code
Employ TDD - Test driven development, to protect your products with the assurances of automated testing with Test first culture
Deploy containerized applications to AWS through your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment
Enjoy work as you solve problems daily by working with highly skilled team members in a pairing culture (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-cloud-common-services-engineer-c67cf3debc57)

What You Get To Do

Strong Programming and software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / Python / equivalent
Container technologies: Docker / equivalent in a Cloud ecosystem
Team first attitude, coupled with curiosity, high potential to learn new technologies and gain strong technical skills
Comfort working in an agile, social and fast-paced environment

What You Should Know About This Role

BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry technical skills 
10+ years of work experience in a SaaS/PaaS environment for large-scale enterprise 
Advocate of cloud platforms (like Kubernetes / Mesos / Cloud Foundry / OpenShift, AWS / GCP / Azure, Serverless)
Prior experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, using tools like Terraform and Ansible
Experience with Java, Spring Boot programming skills with Linux ecosystem