Senior Software Engineer (Golang) - Remote

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• Knowledge of configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible (we use Puppet)
• Experience with Linux systems administration, including solid scripting skills (Ruby) and Bash
• Experience developing/scripting in Ruby or Golang
• Experience working with modern infrastructure tools and technologies
• Comfortable exploring and engaging in unfamiliar languages, tools, and technologies
• Eager to work on difficult problems
• Able to contribute to project discovery, design, and implementation
• Comfortable working on several projects in concert
• Desire to work in a collaborative, open environment on an Agile team as a contributor and mentor
• Highly proactive and results-oriented with excellent critical thinking skills
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve BigCommerce’s Cloud Development Environment
• Help engineers become more productive, removing environment concerns as an impediment
• Maintain Ruby services that orchestrate infrastructure
• Contribute to a new Golang CLI tool developers will use to manage their environment
• Work with technologies and tooling such as GCP, Nomad, Consul, Vault, Terraform, Packer, Puppet, and CircleCI to provide an effective development environment
• Educate engineers on tool usage and process improvements
• Provide support for the development environment
• Document technical aspects and user flows of features
• Work and collaborate with a distributed team across the world
• Assist in defining the team’s roadmap
• Work closely with engineers to gather requirements
• Create and monitor statistics to observe tooling health and functionality