Software Engineer III : Cloud Platform

Guidewire Software•Birmingham, AL

22d•Hybrid

About The Position

Summary Are you a result-oriented, polyglot programmer using 12-factor app methodology to craft your Cloud products? If so, we would like to meet you! Guidewire provides outstanding software for the second-largest financial services industry in the world: insurance. We deliver the core applications that Property and Casualty (P/C) insurers use to build their products, sell policies, settle claims, and bill their customers. We deliver SaaS solutions via Guidewire Cloud that enable our customers to rapidly innovate and drive measurable value. Guidewire Cloud is powered by the highly resilient Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure, with SLAs backed by experienced Guidewire teams and SaaS-certified partners spanning application management, system administration, security and compliance, upgrades, QA testing, health checks, and other services. Job Description Job Description What you get to do Making an impact with your contribution in building the industry leading cloud platform as a service using Kubernetes as backbone in AWS cloud Craft microservices, components, & tools to automate the life cycle of highly available (HA), distributed services and applications on multiple platforms! Engineer quality, scalability, availability, and security into your code. Protect your products with the assurances of automated testing. Deploy containerized applications to AWS through your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment. Work with highly skilled team members, operations team, product managers, and architects as we collaborate to write code / algorithms, mentor one another and build infrastructure and software that matters. At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes. What you bring to Guidewire: 4-6 years of relevant work experience A discerning comprehension of standard REST API / gRPC for data interchange Practical experience with microservices architecture concepts like Service Discovery / API Gateway etc. Linux debugging skills Boundary-pushing software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent Advocate for IaaS abstractions, containers technologies & cloud platforms (like Kubernetes / Mesos / Cloud Foundry / OpenShift, Docker, AWS / GCP / Azure, Serverless) Promote proven architectures ("SOLID"/Hexagonal) and other design principles Methodically approach distributed tracing and monitoring of apps Reinforce sound repeatable automated services. Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement. Nice to Have Software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent Container technologies: Docker, Linux debugging Strong interpersonal skills, a demeanor emphasizing team wins over individual success Comfort working in an agile, social and fast-paced environment. What you should know about this role: This is an hybrid-based position with the flexibility to WFH as applicable This position regularly involves pair programming. How our CCS group operates: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-cloud-common-services-engineer-c67cf3debc57 What the general Interview process will be: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/preparing-to-interview-with-guidewire-cloud-common-services-team-7d0697592929 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)

Requirements

4-6 years of relevant work experience
A discerning comprehension of standard REST API / gRPC for data interchange
Practical experience with microservices architecture concepts like Service Discovery / API Gateway etc.
Linux debugging skills
Boundary-pushing software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent
Advocate for IaaS abstractions, containers technologies & cloud platforms (like Kubernetes / Mesos / Cloud Foundry / OpenShift, Docker, AWS / GCP / Azure, Serverless)
Promote proven architectures ("SOLID"/Hexagonal) and other design principles
Methodically approach distributed tracing and monitoring of apps
Reinforce sound repeatable automated services.
Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

Software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent
Container technologies: Docker, Linux debugging
Strong interpersonal skills, a demeanor emphasizing team wins over individual success
Comfort working in an agile, social and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Making an impact with your contribution in building the industry leading cloud platform as a service using Kubernetes as backbone in AWS cloud
Craft microservices, components, & tools to automate the life cycle of highly available (HA), distributed services and applications on multiple platforms!
Engineer quality, scalability, availability, and security into your code.
Protect your products with the assurances of automated testing.
Deploy containerized applications to AWS through your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment.
Work with highly skilled team members, operations team, product managers, and architects as we collaborate to write code / algorithms, mentor one another and build infrastructure and software that matters.
At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.
Develop Multi-Tenant Cloud Platform that caters to running all Guidewire applications and services
Deeply involved in design and development of GWCP/ATMOS - infrastructure as code using technologies such as EKS (Kubernetes), Terraform, Golang.
handle Observability of the Platform (logs, metrics and traces).