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Staff Engineer- Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Department Product Development and Operations
Location India - Bangalore
Location Type On-Site

Guidewire is a product-based company that provides market-leading software for the second-largest financial services industry in the world: insurance. We build the core applications that Property and Casualty (P&C) insurers use to create 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 ROI. 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.

You'll be working on Guidewire Cloud Platform based on Kubernetes.

How you'll make an impact:

Design, develop and support core infrastructure components of Guidewire Cloud Platform
Understand and educate teams on CI/CD pipeline best practices
Develop Infrastructure as code and deliver the platform as a product
Apply technical influence to improve the reliability of the platform and systems
Work in an agile team, pair programming, and support deliverables
Build monitors/dashboards/log visualizations to collect metrics and learn requirements to build solutions and tools to constantly improve availability, performance, uptime, and response times of the platform
Ability to communicate effectively within the team and collaborate with other teams
Operate development and high-available production environments in AWS
Rapidly absorb new technologies and have the desire to work in a fast-paced environment

Your key differentiators:

BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry technical skills
10+ years of work experience in a SaaS/PaaS environment for large-scale enterprise
Experience in building platforms/software using Kubernetes, Docker and Cloud-native technologies
Strong experience in using public cloud providers, preferably AWS
Experience in building infrastructure as code using configuration tools, preferably Terraform
Good understanding of the network paradigms and stacks available
Comfort with Linux system administration, Bash scripting, and programming using Go, Python, Java, or equivalent
Have Agile, systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong interpersonal skills and a sense of ownership and drive
Experience in designing, analyzing, and solving problems for large-scale distributed systems
Passionate about quality and in general a great team player

What you should know about this role:

This position requires you to work onsite in our Bangalore office.
This position is regularly involved in pair programming.

References:

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

Inside Guidewire:

Who We Are: https://careers.guidewire.com/about
Our employee culture: https://careers.guidewire.com/culture

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 450 insurers, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Talent rewards

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We’re proud to boast about our awesome benefits packages. Holistic wellness is a big deal for us. We offer everything you need to support your work and, most importantly, your work-life balance. We’re committed to helping you be the best version of yourself. Inside and outside of work.

FINANCIAL

Receive market-competitive pay and incentive programs—because you deserve it! To help future-proof your income, we offer generous support through retirement savings plans.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Keep your physical and emotional health in tip-top shape with health insurance for you and your family, an employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, and access to wellness resources.

FLEXIBLE WORKING

Work in an environment where you’ll have the freedom and trust to make an impact, with time for your life outside of work.

DOWNTIME

Relax and kick back through our generous paid time-off programs. Make a difference in your community with three volunteer days each year. Take your own personal day of rest with My Day. We also offer ample paid leave for all new parents.

CONTINUAL DEVELOPMENT

We encourage self-directed learning, giving you every chance to become a better version of yourself, both professionally and personally. At Guidewire, lifelong learning is here for the taking.

CAREER MOBILITY

Your career opportunities are only limited by your own imagination. Guidewire’s community is filled with chances to expand your horizons across any of our teams or worldwide‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ locations.

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