Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Job Description

Appian is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team. The engineer will help re-architect Appian's platform to run on public, private, and hybrid clouds. This role involves ensuring the infrastructure is available, responsive, and capable of meeting customer needs. The current focus is on building features that enable network connectivity between the platform and external networks.

Responsibilities include:

• Leveraging knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to write software.
• Using tools such as Python, Go, Java, Terraform, Pulumi, CI/CD pipelines, RDBMS, and No-SQL DBs.
• Utilizing knowledge of AWS services like EKS, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, VPC networking, and S3.
• Providing technical leadership to drive pragmatic solutions.
• Coaching junior engineers and championing best practices.
• Operating business-critical production services.
• Automating the creation and configuration of cloud resources.

The ideal candidate should have:

• 5+ years experience designing, building, and architecting software in an enterprise software or SaaS/PaaS environment.
• Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language and comfortable working with Object-Oriented programming concepts.
• Experience driving projects to impact.
• Experience working in a Linux environment.
• Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Appian offers:

• Dedicated learning time.
• Growth and leadership opportunities.
• Engineering Indie Time.
• Annual hackathons.