Software Engineer (K8)

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 - Software Engineer - Full Stack (DevX)

PHP/Go Lang/JavaScript, AWS, Kubernetes

About the team

The DevX team, also known as Developer Experience team,  is committed to empowering Developers with top-tier products for building, developing, and operating Drupal and Node applications on Acquia Cloud. Our focus is on SaaS/PaaS offerings such as Acquia Cloud IDE, Pipelines, Code Studio and Remote Administration.

We aim to maximize Developer productivity through innovative solutions that provide pre-configured Development Environments on demand, along with a pre-configured CI Pipeline and the flexibility to integrate external Developer tools. By providing a preconfigured and optimized environment for Drupal development, we enhance Developer efficiency, enabling faster Developer onboarding and time-to-market.

We're seeking passionate software engineers to collaborate on defining, designing, building, and operating enterprise-level persistent Cloud services.

Your responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain customer-facing applications and microservices on Kubernetes, ensuring security & quality at every level by implementing CI/CD and controls like Code Coverage and Security
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and subject matter experts to proactively document product and development details, including user interaction, architecture, and design decisions
• Partner with team members to operate and deliver on established guidelines and drive improvements

Agile SCRUM

• Contribute to backlog planning, grooming, and scheduling
• Actively participate in SCRUM ceremonies
• Provide regular updates on assignments

The Ideal Candidate

• Thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and is dedicated to maintaining a positive culture and work-life balance.
• Possesses exceptional communication skills and can articulate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Skilled at deconstructing intricate problems into manageable solutions, utilizing data-driven analysis and sound judgment.
• Committed to delivering high-quality software through test-driven development and continuous refactoring.
• A proactive learner and influential leader, motivates their team by example, and consistently pursues excellence. Adept at working under pressure and proficient in multiple programming languages, demonstrating expertise in constructing fault-tolerant services.

Job Qualifications

• 2-4 years of hands-on experience in software development, including designing, building, deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes application development and microservices architectures. Helm, ArgoCD, and Golang Operators is a plus.
• Demonstrated production experience in full stack development programming languages such as: Golang, PHP, JavaScript, and Node.js.
• Solid Linux OS system management experience (Ubuntu, RHEL, Amazon Linux, etc.) is preferred.

Bonus points

• Configuration management: Ansible, Terraform
• Operational knowledge of Drupal in a production setting

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.