Senior Software Engineer (Observability)
- Employer
- Appian Corporation
- Location
- McLean, Virginia
- Posted
- Jan 26, 2022
- Closes
- Jan 31, 2022
- Ref
- 3350507
- Function
- IT
- Industry
- Technology and Software
- Hours
- Full Time
At Appian, we're not only about building awesome software, but also about growing our culture of passion, energy, and innovation; great people, great software! As an observability-focused Senior Software Engineer at Appian you will help build the next generation of our monitoring and alerting platform and tackle our most challenging technical problems alongside other brilliant engineers.
About you:
How You'll Contribute:
Preferred Experience Level:
5+ years of relevant experience, building and delivering software applications.
Education:
B.S. in Computer Science, or a related field
Appian Corporation is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Further, Appian will not discriminate against applicants for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-worker, Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination .
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About you:
You have 5+ years experience building and delivering software applications
You're passionate about observability and kubernetes
You enjoy working with open-source observability technologies like Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Cortex, Thanos and Loki
Strategic thinker and problem solver with a proven ability to prioritize, learn and execute in order to accomplish amazing things
You're passionate about identifying and building new tools and technologies to solve complex observability problems
You're a tinkerer at heart with an innate ability to solve tough problems
You have experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab or Jenkins
You have familiarity with AWS or similar Cloud providers
Experience in Go, Python, Bash or comparable languages
You understand the benefits of Kubernetes native monitoring solutions leveraging Kubernetes orchestration
Imaginative, collaborative, and truly excited about building great products and experiences
You hold a BS in Computer Science and/or equivalent years of experience writing code
How You'll Contribute:
Develop simple yet elegant solutions to complex technical problems at the intersection of Engineering and IT in a small scrum team.
Leverage a modern and diverse array of tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Cortex, Thanos, Loki and Kubernetes to ensure that our platform is built with observability in mind, and that our customers' applications are observant.
Assist with observability platform issue investigations and remediation
Respond to and resolve emergent problems; write software and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
Preferred Experience Level:
5+ years of relevant experience, building and delivering software applications.
Education:
B.S. in Computer Science, or a related field
Appian Corporation is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Further, Appian will not discriminate against applicants for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-worker, Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination .
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