Staff Software Engineer - Private Cloud (Remote Opportunity)

Company: SS&C Technologies
Location: Washington
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.Job DescriptionSS&C is one of the fastest growing global companies in the world. By embracing innovation, we want to make a real difference to our clients in both finance and healthcare. We're building a state of the art cloud platform enabling hundreds of engineering teams to deliver software faster and more reliably.Our lean team is currently developing the foundations for a platform that will become the cornerstone of application development for our company. The SS&C Private Cloud is just getting started, and there's a lot of opportunity to set precedent and guidance in architecture, process, and team culture. We're looking for great engineers to join our talented team and help us build.You're passionate about the unreasonable efficacy of cloud platforms and developer experience. You're looking for an opportunity to build something big with extremely smart people who've done it before. You thrive in cultures that value innovation and fast-paced delivery. You're tied to whatever tech is right for the job, not just the tech you're experienced with.This position is open to remote work from within the US.Position Requirements:

• Great development skills
  • Building new and contributing to existing Go services
  • Working with Terraform to manage infrastructure.
  • Developing and supporting Kubernetes and supporting systems.
  • Debugging applications and systems across the company as needed. This may require jumping into unfamiliar languages and ecosystems.
  • Good sense for instrumentation and an appreciation for the value of tracing, logging, and metrics-based alerting.
  • Develops and ships proof of concept tools and services without significant planning when its useful
  • Great operations skills
    • Ability to operate and administer Linux systems
    • Understands and can develop tooling within an Enterprise Windows ecosystem
    • Ability to build and operate container orchestration systems
    • Addresses security issue proactively and based on security reports from tools like GitHub Enterprise Advanced Security
    • Great communication skills
      • Reviewing and providing constructive feedback on pull requests.
      • Coordinating with remote teammates via tools like Slack and Mattermost.
      • Writing great commit messages and tracking issues in tools like JIRA.Position Qualifications:
        • 12+ years of coding experience (Go, Java, Ruby, or other languages)
        • 5+ years of experience with infrastructure configuration and deployment tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or other)
        • Experience with concurrency primitives and distributed systems
        • Experience with container and orchestration tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, EKS)Bonuses:
          • Open source project leadership / contributions
          • AWS specialty certifications
          • Experience with CNCF and Hashicorp projects and cloud native tooling
          • Thoughtful and clean API development Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.

Keywords: SS&C Technologies, Washington DC , Staff Software Engineer - Private Cloud (Remote Opportunity), IT / Software / Systems , Washington, DC