Sr. Software Engineer

CIQ OVERVIEW

CIQ believes in helping people do great things by providing world-class software infrastructure for others to build value on top of. This includes working closely with open-source communities, securing the software infrastructure, and driving performance throughout the entire stack. We love our customers who are doing things like running a traditional IT infrastructure to building the future of genAI and leading major research and scientific initiatives like curing cancer.

We are looking for individuals who strive to work on teams empowered by ownership, diversity of thought, pushing the limits of what is possible, and wanting to help others.

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work within the Engineering department to design, develop, and support enterprise solutions by contributing to the products and infrastructure for CIQ. You will also maintain our systems' capacity and performance. You need to be able to troubleshoot and improve applications and processes. You’ll analyze current code and industry developments to design engineering solutions to solve problems and create seamless user experiences. Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Driving and contributing to architecture-level discussions, planning, and implementation

• Researching to ensure what we are building is always the best path forward.

• Documenting each project to share knowledge and facilitate integration for users.

• Driving proof of concepts and minimal viable products for demonstration.

• Supporting multiple services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

• Improving products by collaborating with Engineering teams, Product teams, Sales teams, and open-source communities (as needed) on optimal and relevant solutions while sharing knowledge.

NEEDED TO SUCCEED

Successful candidates will demonstrate CIQ’s core values and improve the Engineering and company culture. You will have an understanding of Linux and Cloud infrastructure. Familiarity with GoLang, Pulumi, Kubernetes, and other tools/technologies within engineering. The ability to pivot to new challenges in a fast-paced startup environment. Expertise in deriving solutions from high-level or incomplete requirements. Strong problem-solving skills and an eagerness to learn. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. The ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote team environment. A friendly, collaborative, humble, honest, and always striving to be better attitude. Flexibility to support an on-call rotation.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

A minimum of three years experience in software development and a minimum of two

years experience with container technologies and GoLang. Fluency in a Linux operating system.

Proven contributions to open-source software projects.