Software Engineer III : Cloud Platform

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Cloud Platform role at Guidewire Software

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.

• Build the industry‑leading cloud platform as a service using Kubernetes as the backbone in AWS cloud.
• Craft microservices, components, and tools to automate the life cycle of highly available, 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 (CD).
• Work with highly skilled team members, operations team, product managers, and architects as we collaborate to write code, mentor one another, and build infrastructure and software that matters.
• 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.
• Comprehension of standard REST API / gRPC for data interchange.
• Practical experience with microservices architecture concepts like Service Discovery / API Gateway.
• Linux debugging skills.
• Proficiency in Java, Golang, NodeJS, Python, or equivalent frameworks and languages.
• Advocate for IaaS abstractions, container technologies, and cloud platforms such as Kubernetes, Mesos, Cloud Foundry, Open Shift, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, and Serverless.
• Promote proven architectures (SOLID/Hexagonal) and other design principles.
• Methodically approach distributed tracing and monitoring of applications.
• 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.

• Additional software dev skills in Java, Golang, NodeJS, Python, or equivalent.
• Experience with container technologies:
  Docker and Linux debugging.
• Strong interpersonal skills, a demeanor emphasizing team wins over individual success.
• Comfort working in an agile, social and fast‑paced environment.

• Hybrid‑based position with flexibility to work from home as applicable.
• Regular pair programming.
• Read about our Cloud Common Services group:
• Interview process overview:
• Develop a multi‑tenant cloud platform that caters to running all Guidewire applications and services. Refer:  and
• Deep involvement in design and development of GWCP/ATMOS – infrastructure as code using EKS (Kubernetes), Terraform, Golang. Handle observability of the platform (logs, metrics, and traces). Refer:

The U.S. base salary range for this full‑time position is $124,000 – $186,000. Base pay depends on experience, skills, education, training, and location. All full‑time positions or part‑time roles working 30 hours or more a week are eligible for benefits that support health and well‑being, including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company‑sponsored retirement plan. Additional roles may be eligible for annual bonus plan, commissions, and/or long‑term incentive awards, contingent on performance.

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