Senior Software Engineer (Golang) - Remote

BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.

We are equally passionate about growing our employee’s careers and providing them an incredible experience as we rapidly expand across the globe. We are proud to have been  recognized numerous times  for our product and workplace culture. We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow, so together we can redefine the ecommerce industry.

BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast- growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth.

BigCommerce is searching for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Delivery Acceleration Team. We are currently a small, distributed team that engages with the entire Engineering organization by maintaining BigCommerce’s Cloud Development Environment that enables engineers to work faster and to be less encumbered by technical burdens.

What You’ll Do:

• Maintain and improve BigCommerce’s Cloud Development Environment

• Help engineers become more productive, removing environment concerns as an impediment

• Maintain Ruby services that orchestrate infrastructure

• Contribute to a new Golang CLI tool developers will use to manage their environment

• Work with technologies and tooling such as GCP, Nomad, Consul, Vault, Terraform, Packer, Puppet, and CircleCI to provide an effective development environment

• Educate engineers on tool usage and process improvements

• Provide support for the development environment

• Document technical aspects and user flows of features

• Work and collaborate with a distributed team across the world

• Assist in defining the team’s roadmap

• Work closely with engineers to gather requirements

• Create and monitor statistics to observe tooling health and functionality

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer

• A trusted engineer who has completed either a comprehensive software engineering boot camp, CS, CE, SW, MIS or equivalent degree, or has relevant work experience

• Knowledge of configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible (we use Puppet)

• Experience with Linux systems administration, including solid scripting skills (Ruby) and Bash

• Experience developing/scripting in Ruby or Golang

• Experience working with modern infrastructure tools and technologies

• Comfortable exploring and engaging in unfamiliar languages, tools, and technologies

• Eager to work on difficult problems

• Able to contribute to project discovery, design, and implementation

• Comfortable working on several projects in concert

• Desire to work in a collaborative, open environment on an Agile team as a contributor and mentor

• Highly proactive and results-oriented with excellent critical thinking skills

• Fluent in English

**Please submit your resume in English for review. **

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Learn more about the BigCommerce team, culture and benefits at  https://careers.bigcommerce.com.

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