Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Location Details: United States - Remote

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

Join our team

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to assist in building the next generation of a unified control plane for the 'managed hosting products'! This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced Software Engineer to influence and contribute to building a secure, highly available, fault-tolerant, and globally performant microservices-based platform deployed on AWS, using the newest technology stack.

What you'll get to do…

• Build a Unified Control plane (UCP) for all of GoDaddy's hosting products.
• You will have the opportunity to enhance the architecture, propose innovative ideas and solutions, and think creatively.
• Work in a scrum team, you will collaborate with other specialists, product managers, architects, and operations teams both within and outside your organization.
• Use data and analytics to improve products and customer experience.

Your experience should include...

• 6+ years of experience in a software engineering role, building large-scale distributed applications or solutions.
• 4+ years of Cloud computing experience, preferably with AWS.
• Experience in writing unit, integration, and smoke tests.
• Strong experience with programming languages like Go, and PHP.
• Experience working with Docker, and CDK.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience deploying code with CI/CD technologies like GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Experience with automation of different processes, from building tools to monitoring.
• Focus on code quality and high development standards.
• Strong independent problem-solving skills.

You might also have...

• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Nomad or Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Wordpress.
• Familiarity with AWS Services such as S3, API Gateway, Lambda, and ECS.
• Experience working in agile teams.

We've got your back... We offer a range of benefits that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in an employee stock purchase plan, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

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