Software Engineer

Description:

The Ansible engineering team is looking for a Software Engineer with a focus on backend web and API development to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with a group of talented engineers helping to improve efficiency and drive results through your contributions. The ideal candidate is friendly, collaborative, and passionate about working with others to achieve success.

The job’s focus will be on expanding our enterprise Ansible offering through seamless integration with other configuration management and automation tooling. Through developing and maintaining the suite of projects Ansible offers as part of the Ansible Automation Platform’s content management arm, you will play a key role in helping us develop new features that allow our applications to be used in new ways, as well as helping to deliver these new tools for Ansible content creators and users. You will work closely with engineers across the Ansible organization to deliver features that can be used across our projects.

What You Will Do
 

• Develop and test new backend features for Ansible Automation Platform
• Troubleshoot bugs and regressions, working closely with Quality Engineers to deliver working and feature-complete solutions
• Participate in product release cycles, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with CI/CD tooling
• Perform software updates, peer code reviews, testing, and CVE analysis
• Learn from other engineers in a highly-collaborative team environment, as well as participate in peer code reviews
• Regularly participate in the team’s Agile scrum process, demos and check-ins with Product Management and other stakeholders to align on use-cases and plan new initiatives
   

What You Will Bring
 

• Experience with Python, Django and Django Rest Framework
• Experience with Python unit and integration testing with tools such as pytest
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with utilizing container management platforms and development environments like Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker/Docker Compose, and Podman
• Experience with CI/CD systems like Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Experience working on large-scale projects utilizing version control (we use Git and GitHub/GitLab), open-source experience is a plus
• Interest in participating in the software design and architecture process
• Good communications skills, and experience working directly with and presenting to stakeholders
• An agile mindset, with openness and flexibility to pivot towards the highest priority work items as needed