Senior Software Engineer - Chef product
In our Instructure business unit, Chef Product Group, we develop the world's best products for managing applications and infrastructure at scale. Our customers deploy them to solve real problems in all kinds of industries. We get to work with the latest in cloud and container technologies. We have the opportunity not just to follow but to shape best practices. As we are moving to modernize our products, we need great developers that can be support focused and keep our customer confidence when problems happen. They trust our teams keeping there infrastructure up and secure and we take that seriously. Our platform is used to enable billions of people around the world to chat, fly, present, bank, game, shop, and learn. Chances are the applications and devices you use every day to have infrastructure built, deployed, secured, and run with our code.
In this role, you will:
- Support improvements to our core product like Infra client, habitat chef 360. , CLIs, APIs as well as core development processes
- Take on responsibility for and iteratively drive to the successful implementation an area of the product
- Work on issues and improvements in our tools critical to the success of Chef’s customers and the broader Chef community
- Teach, mentor, and learn from your team of world class engineers
- Collaborate with various stakeholders of the project including product management, UX, other teams as well as customers
- Provide Kubernetes support across the Chef 360 suite of products, including Helm-based deployments
- Provide Legacy support for automate product including support client upgrades to new products
- Possess the ability to work with customers during critical outages and trouble shoot their issues
Your background:
- Have a minimum of a Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science Plus 3+ years of experience or equivalent experience
- Have systems software development skills with experience with either Windows or Linux Operating Systems and are willing to learn the other
- Have operations experience as a developer or as a member of an ops team
- You have demonstrable deep software development skills in at least one systems development language such as Rust or Go. Rust experience preferred
- You have experience with modern technology stacks with a bent for system level software
- Bash or PowerShell experience desired and are willing to learn the other
- Experience building and operating high-performance systems.
- Experience with Windows and Linux systems internals desirable
- Working experience with Containers and Container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- You like to dive in, learn new things, and want to build awesome products
- You enjoy collaborating closely with Chef customers and internal engineering teams to understand their complex issues, solve their problems and elicit frequent feedback on the solutions you provide
- You believe quality is part of the process and not an afterthought - we are well rounded engineers, not developers who handoff to QA
Base Salary Range: $127,500- $157,500
This position is also eligible to participate in our performance-based annual corporate bonus plan. Final base compensation is determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, education, demonstrable experience, and allowance for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a robust benefits package, with details below.
If this sounds like you and fits your experience and career goals, we’d be happy to chat.
What we offer in return is the opportunity to experience a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with and also to enjoy:
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability, and financial benefits (including 401(k) retirement savings plan. Tuition Reimbursement program. Additional voluntary benefits including crucial illness/hospital indemnity, identity theft protection, auto & home insurance, legal, and pet insurance.
- Competitive salary, bonus, and best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) with a 27-month lookback
- Flexible paid vacation time, paid day off for your birthday, and company holidays. A variety of leave plans, including Parental Leave.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and an employee well-being program focusing on physical, mental, and financial health.
Together, We Make Progress
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