Staff Software Engineer (1844)

Location: Pune/ Remote, India

Acquia is transforming the digital strategies of companies all over the world with our open cloud platform. We are passionate and relentlessly committed to helping our clients create digital experiences that are more relevant, personalized, and built for a fast-changing, always-connected, mobile-first world. Headquartered in the US, 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.

As a member of the Acquia Platform team you will be working on the core services that enable and support all Acquia products to successfully deploy and run as durable, secure, highly available, scalable, and performant applications. The platform team utilizes the latest tools, technologies and patterns to solve these complex business problems through the creation and provisioning of highly available and scalable compute clusters built on top of Kubernetes. These clusters are optimized and hardened to support Acquia’s thousands of customers who trust us to deliver their digital brands and experience across the world to millions of users each day.

Responsible for

• Design, develop features that help evolve the technical direction of the Acquia Platform
• Work in a DevOps focused team owning and operating the services you create in accordance with service level objectives you define.
• Working on an Agile Scrum team building shippable product increments that meet the goals set with Product Owners.
• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle including development, automated test construction, deployment and operations.
• Develop unit and automated integration tests that give the team confidence to deploy to production on a predictable cadence.
• Produce comprehensive software documentation for internal teams and our customers.
• Provide product support to internal and external stakeholders.

The ideal candidate is

• Executes projects effectively and efficiently as a leader on teams
• Uses sound rationale for problem identification and decision-making, and can transfer that knowledge to more junior engineers
• Drive deployment of new features or systems and the retirement of old ones, overcoming inertial resistance to change from customers and employees, in order to simplify product development and operations and increase velocity
• Design, Diagram and document current and future architectural plans sufficiently that necessary stakeholders can understand how new technologies introduced will work
• Works in a collaborative and supportive manner with not only his team but internal stakeholders as well.
• Strives to consistently achieve excellence in work delivered not only for themselves, but for their teammates.
• Passionate about creating and maintaining high quality software with test-driven development, continuous refactoring and an eye for simplicity.
• Experienced developing production services in multiple programming languages
• Solid background in linux systems engineering and networking fundamentals
• 5+ years hands on software development experience including designing, building, deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining highly scalable and fault tolerant data