Software Engineer III - Cloud Platform

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

• 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.

• 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 / Open Shift, 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.

• 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.

• This is an hybrid-based position with the flexibility to WFH as applicable

• This position regularly involves pair programming.

• How our CCS group operates:

• What the general Interview process will be:

• Develop Multi-Tenant Cloud Platform that caters to running all Guidewire applications and services (Refer: , )

• 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: )

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $124,000 - $210,000. Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan.

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