Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions in autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers here!) who genuinely care about each other and the work. We know that’s our company’s purpose – and that we can only achieve it by supporting a culture where people feel valued, self-managed, and love to come to work.

The Role

Agile Six is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a collaborative team working with the Department of Veterans Affairs to help expedite the delivery benefits to Veterans. By delivering high quality, functional software informed by user feedback and research, our team will increase access to health care, directly impacting and improving the lives of Veterans.

The successful candidate will be designing and developing web services and other components using message brokers (RabbitMQ) within an open source project and ecosystem. We are searching for someone who embraces open source software and an open ethos regarding software development. As a part of our team, you can expect to work on important problems that have a lasting impact on millions of users and make a difference in our government!

Responsibilities

• Contribute as part of a cross functional Agile team to build a large, scalable web application in an open source ecosystem
• Write components and services using software development principles and best practices
• Design and build software components with an eye towards modular, extensible, and scalable design
• Provide guidance and informal leadership to other teammates through code reviews, pair coding, mentorship, etc.
• Leverage emerging technologies and practices around DevOps, cloud services, AI, automation tools, etc. where appropriate in the course of daily work to improve efficiency and/or quality
• Demonstrate strong communication and team collaboration skills
• Write automated unit tests and integration tests, and assist in manual testing as needed
• Contribute to software design through the development and communication of solutions, as well as build consensus through diagrams and other forms of presentation
• Work with a Product Owner to ensure that work is accurately described and appropriately prioritized, including providing input into product roadmaps, product and sprint backlogs, and user stories
• Support the practice of engineering within the larger company as needed through activities such as:
  • Assisting in outreach, recruitment, and hiring efforts
  • Occasionally participating in or otherwise supporting business development efforts, including code or design challenges, writing or reviewing proposal responses, etc.
  • Participating in communities of practice

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of production experience with a variety of programming languages, including Ruby and Java
• Demonstrated experience with Spring and Gradle (or a similar open source build automation tool)
• Expert-level understanding of common design patterns and software development principles, and how to apply these effectively in day-to-day software development
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one area of the software stack and/or language/platform, coupled with a broad understanding of the software landscape (T-Shaped expertise)
• Experience working on an Agile team and demonstrating an Agile mindset
• Ability to work independently on high complexity tasks
• Experience in an open-source, collaborative development environment
• Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years

Additional desired qualifications

• Experience with Python
• Experience with Apache Camel
• Experience with PostgresDB and Redis
• Experience with pub/sub systems, messaging brokers such as RabbitMQ / Kafka
• Experience working with GitHub or other git repositories
• Experience developing in the AWS cloud
• Experience with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC platforms
• Experience working in or with government agencies, especially the VA
• Previously contributed to at least one open source project
• U.S. Veteran

Sixer Salary and Benefits

To promote equal pay for equal work, we publish salary ranges for each position.

The salary for this position is $141,387-$148,638

Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are all available to all employees, but you will be expected to largely manage them yourself. We respect that only you know what balance means for your life and season. While we offer support from coaches, we expect you to own your wholeness, show up for work whole, and go home to your family the same. You will be seen, heard and valued. We expect you to offer the same for your colleagues, be kind (not bossy), caring (not directive) and ready to participate in a state of flow. We mean it when we say “We build better by putting people first.”

All Sixers Enjoy:

• Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
• Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work
• Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
• 401K matching
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
• Employer paid life insurance
• Self-managed and generous paid time off
• Paid federal holidays and Election day off
• Paid parental leave
• Self-managed professional development spending
• Self-managed wellness days

Hiring practices

Agile Six Applications, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

Note: We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. This role is required to work from the contiguous United States.

If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation in applying for any of these positions, please reach out to careers@agile6.com. We want to ensure you have the ability to apply for any position at Agile Six.

Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.

Available locations: Atlanta, GA or Raleigh, NC or Washington, DC

What you'll do as a Solutions Engineer, Strategic Accounts 

The Solution Engineering organization is responsible for the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers. 

Reporting to the Senior Director of Solution Engineering, the Strategic Accounts Solutions Engineer is a Senior level role. You are a customer facing technologist within the Cloudflare Solutions Engineering team. You have strong experience in large account pre-sales management as well as excellent verbal and written communications skills suited for executive-level engagement. You arecomfortable speaking about the Cloudflare vision and mission with C-level customer executives.Your role will be to build passionate champions within the technology ranks at your accounts, drive sales for identified opportunities, and leverage your relationships with these technical champions to build a revenue pipeline where no opportunities yet exist.

You will work within a high-profile pursuit team dedicated to certain strategic accounts, working closely with the strategic account executives attached to these accounts.

Specifically, we are looking for you to:

• Build and maintain long term technical relationships with the technical buyers (executives, managers and individual contributors) at your assigned accounts, becoming a trusted advisor to those stakeholders.
• Deeply understand the business-critical issues that your accounts are facing, and provide meaningful solution designs to facilitate technical validation of Cloudflare as a part of the customer’s infrastructure, including the coordination of Cloudflare colleagues throughout the sales and procurement cycle.
• Identify and drive technical conversations in every possible line of business within the accounts, engaging key technical buyers with the purpose of uncovering new areas of potential revenue & showing value to all possible parts of your accounts.
• Empower customers in their security and network transformation journeys, helping them to define strategies and architect necessary security controls aligned with Cloudflare product suites.
• Be the voice of the customer internally at Cloudflare, engaging with and influencing Cloudflare’s Product and Engineering teams to meet your customers’ needs.
• Represent and evangelize Cloudflare externally at Developer, Community, Technology, Cybersecurity and other industry events with thought leadership and expertise.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• Polished communication and executive presentation skills with ability to drive a discussion with a broad range of stakeholders (from the web developer to the CISO).
• Relationship building: a proven track record of building deep technical relationships with engineers and senior executives in large and strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to build consensus on security solutions/projects.
• Experience managing technical sales within large accounts.
• Developing champion-style relationships
• Driving technical wins
• Assisting with technical validation
• A deep understanding of core industry components of Cloudflare solutions (and a desire to learn more):
• Internet security technologies including DDoS and DDoS mitigation, Firewalls, TLS, VPN, DLP
• Networking technologies including TCP, UDP, DNS, IPv4 + IPv6, BGP routing, GRE, SD-WAN, MPLS, Global Traffic Management
• HTTP technologies including reverse proxy (e.g., WAF and CDN), forward proxy (secure web gateway), serverless application development
• Zero-trust network access (ZTNA & SASE) concepts including identity management and authentication
• Cloud computing technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure and others
• Some scripting or programming experience with one or more of JavaScript, Python, Golang, BASH
• Understanding of, or experience with, regulatory requirements such as FedRAMP, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC-2, ISO/IEC.

Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.  

Last year, more than $3.3 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers. 

This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.

Work/Project Scope:

Upwork is building a Service Mesh ecosystem that  is a decentralized application architecture that allows applications to be secure, resilient, observable and controllable. The approach relies on a data plane of application-level proxies to manage the communication between the distributed application components/services, and a control plane for managing the proxies. It is the next generation of microservices architectures and the current industry solution to address the problems of the preceding client library approach, primarily the tight coupling of infrastructure concerns with application code. The base of the Upwork Service Mesh is the Kubernetes Orchestrator and in particular EKS and the Mesh is Istio.In this position, you will be responsible for taking on several new initiatives to enhance and scale our applications in a rapidly growing Mesh/k8s environment. Working with other engineers on new micro services that expand our core offering, you will provide deep expertise to help steer scalability and stability improvements early in the life cycle of development. You will be working closely with Engineering groups and use your experience in programming / scripting to instrument, automate, troubleshoot, deploy and orchestrate the product application services hosted in the Mesh platform. Constructive mentality is a key requirement, as engineers at any level substantially contribute to business’ objectives.We embrace diversity in knowledge and experience; people with different skill-sets and mindset comprise the platform engineering team, which aims at delivering the foundations of an efficient service delivery that has impact in our core product offering.

Must Haves (Required Skills):

• Hands-on experience with microservices architectures and specifically discovery, service to service communication patterns and high availability deployments on Kubernetes clusters

• Mid to high level experience with at least one programming/scripting language such Python or Bash in an enterprise environment.

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and ability to work with components such as VPC, IAM, EC2, ELB, Route53, KMS, Cloudwatch, S3, RDS, DynamoDB.

• Hands-on experience with a Container orchestration platform in AWS such as ECS and preferably EKS.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment with tools such as Terraform and ArgoCD.

• Working knowledge of DevOps/GitOps and best practices for modern Devops Operations and software development.

• Experience with security best practices related to infrastructure and platform design.

Upwork is proudly committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.  

Your impact

At Handshake, we are assembling a team of dynamic engineers who are passionate about building high-quality, impactful, self-service platforms. As a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will spearhead the management of our Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes platforms, guaranteeing their seamless operation in a scalable cloud environment. Your expertise will be pivotal in optimizing our platforms for maximum efficiency and reliability, owning our Technical Excellence and SRE programs, ensuring they meet the demands of our growing business while maintaining robust scalability. You'll play a crucial role in mentoring and developing junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture.

Your role

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure solutions using industry best practices.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration of infrastructure components and broader application architecture.

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud infrastructure performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Automate deployment, configuration, and management tasks using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Spacelift.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior members of the infrastructure team.

• Participate in on-call rotations to address infrastructure-related incidents and ensure high availability of our cloud services and the Handshake Platform.

• Stay updated on emerging cloud technologies and trends, evaluating their potential impact on existing infrastructure and recommending appropriate adoption strategies.

• Design and document infrastructure configurations, procedures, and best practices to facilitate knowledge sharing and maintain operational efficiency.

• Lead our Technical Excellence program, increasing observability and measurement of KPIs & SLOs across our platforms.

• Implement modern, cloud-native solutions such as service mesh, advanced scaling and deployment strategies, workflow orchestration.

• Develop and improve processes to provide self-service and first-class user experience for our engineers.

• Be a thought leader, drive innovation by helping to develop team roadmaps aligning with our business goals.

• Work in a 100% Cloud Environment (GCP) and use tools and services like Argo Workflows, Argo CD, Datadog, Kubernetes, improving the reliability and scalability of our platforms.

Your experience

• You are adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles

• You thrive taking projects from inception to completion and are outcome-oriented, measuring business impact

• You act with empathy when partnering with fellow engineers and coworkers, focusing on user experience and simplicity

• You build and maintaining cloud-based architectures in AWS and/or GCP, at scale

• You have expertise with Kubernetes, IaC, observability and modern infrastructure tooling

• You have prior experience with building and maintaining self-service tooling and guardrails

• You have experience in securing Cloud workloads through implementing best practices such as OPA, RBAC, and utilizing Kubernetes security features

• You have experience building or working directly with SRE in areas related to Operational Readiness and Incident Response

• You have Infrastructure networking experience: firewalls, load balancing, DNS, etc.

• You are passionate about building simple, yet high-quality infrastructure

• You have experience working in distributed, performant, at-scale backend systems

• You are strong in Operations and have a passion for automation and reducing toil

Bonus areas of expertise

• GitOps & Argo ecosystem of tools

• Service Mesh (istio, Linkerd, etc.)

• ElasticSearch and search indexing, semantic and vector search experience

• Distributed tracing and observability with tools like Datadog, OTEL

• FinOps and cloud cost controls/governance

Compensation range

$210,000-$240,000

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report and rated a leader by the analyst community. Acquia’s CoE is a Great Place to Work certified organization. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Acquia’s products run 100% on Amazon Web Services using EKS, EC2, CloudFormation, Terraform and various other technologies and best practices. Since each product is built and maintained by its own engineering team, the ideal candidate for this position would need to be proactive in familiarizing themselves with those services and have the ability to coordinate and collaborate with multiple teams.

About the Team: The Observability team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth functioning and performance optimization of all our systems. We are a dynamic team of engineers dedicated to providing centralized Observability solutions to empower all teams within the company. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining systems and tools to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure and applications.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will…

• Lead the design and implementation of observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, and tracing systems along with a wide range of core internal systems. Work with your team to develop far reaching modules that have scalability and availability at their core
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in deciding, developing integrations with other subsystems and best practices for both current and future infrastructure needs at a scale.
• Develop and maintain monitoring dashboards and alerts to provide actionable insights into the system health and performance.
• Automate the observability process to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Conduct in-depth performance analysis and troubleshooting to identify and resolve issues proactively, ensuring minimal impact on operations.
• Maintain an understanding of system functionality and architecture, with a strong focus on the operational aspects of the service (availability, performance, change management, emergency response, capacity planning, etc)
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in observability, and make recommendations for adoptions to enhance our systems.
• Provide product support to internal and external stakeholders
• Work in a team environment where your team owns and operates the services you build

You’ll enjoy this role if you…

• Like solving complex challenges for scalable, low latency systems
• Enjoy solutioning for a Cloud native environment
• Enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders
• Have a passion for DevOps & SRE practices

What you’ll need to be successful…

• Have 5+ years of software development experience with time spent working on Cloud technologies (AWS, Google Compute, Azure) at large scale. AWS with Kubernetes is greatly preferred.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Golang, PHP, Ruby or similar.
• Comfortable navigating & troubleshooting unix/linux based operating systems.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and logging technologies, such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, Collectd, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar.
• Familiarity with Sumo Logic, New Relic, Dynatrace, Cloudwatch, Splunk, Nagios.
• Strong interest in building and operating distributed systems and/or service oriented architectures.
• Passion for Devops processes and tools (Jenkins), distributed configuration management systems (Ansible, Puppet) and maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation)
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with ability to effectively interact with stakeholders across different teams and levels.

Extra credit if you…

• Certifications in relevant technologies (AWS, CKAD, CKA, etc)
• Have hands on experience with Docker, K8s or equivalent
• Have a mindset to automate repetitive tasks  

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.