Software Engineer - Network

Why UKG

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform, helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.

This is a Staff Software Engineer - Network role responsible for developing, automating, and scaling network and infrastructure services using software engineering and infrastructure-as-code. This individual should have a software engineering mindset and leverage code and AI tooling to design, develop, deploy, manage and support services via CI/CD pipelines.

• Technical Leadership:
  Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex Infrastructure applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance. Identify opportunities to advocate for efficient process changes and improvements.
• Architectural Design:
  Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features in Google cloud and its network systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Software Development:
  Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code or various software applications and systems.
• Service Health and Quality:
  Maintain the health and quality of Cloud Network infrastructure services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for actions providing recommendations to optimize performance. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.
• Project Management:
  Voluntarily takes the lead in a project, manage execution and delivery of features and projects, set and communicate project objectives, negotiate project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.
• Code Review:
  Diligent about reviewing code developed by other developers, provide feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from ground up, unit tests etc.
• Testing:
  Build testable IaC (Infrastructure as code) define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Python, Golang, Jinja, Helm and design patterns leveraging the test automation as the guide.
• Documentation:
  Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials in Confluence, Sharepoint, Github repo.
• Leadership capabilities:
  Takes the lead in projects, manage execution and delivery of features and projects, sets and communicates objectives, commits (and delivers) on priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.
• On-call support:
  Rotation On-Call duty for incidents.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8-10+ years of professional software and IaC development experience.
• Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Terraform, Ansible and Git Hub.
• Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.
• Proficiency with version control systems like Git Hub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
• Any Public Cloud Certification.
• Proven 4+ years recent experience triaging cases that come from incidents or product defects in public cloud platforms.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience in both private and…