Lead Cloud Development Engineer

About Cloud Software Group

Cloud Software Group combines the capabilities of both Citrix and TIBCO, creating one of the world’s largest cloud software providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe.

Citrix -- the recognized leader in VDI, Desktop-as-a-Service and application delivery solutions -- empowers enterprises of all sizes and industries to enable secure hybrid and remote working, from anywhere, using any device. Our platform delivers high-performance user experience, zero trust security and operational cost efficiency regardless whether customers require cloud, on-premises or hybrid deployment. By joining our team, you'll have the opportunity to build cutting-edge solutions for 100 million people worldwide to securely access their desktops, applications and SaaS and web apps.

You are a Lead Cloud Software Engineer with minimum 8 years of relevant work experience and hands-on skills in Object-oriented programming languages, data structures, algorithms, scripting languages, and frameworks.

You thrive in a collaborative environment and are passionate about implementing functionality in incremental slices of value for the sole purpose of delighting customers and millions of end users. We are looking for individuals that have a passion for solving problems and enjoy working in a dynamic, innovative, fast-paced, and collaborative environment.

Position Overview

In this position, which sits on the Citrix DaaS engineering team, you will play a key role in supporting the operations of large-scale, highly-available distributed systems. You will have an opportunity to leverage your cloud and software development skills to ensure the services are running efficiently. You will be responsible for the availability, performance, security, compliance, cost, and operational excellence of the public cloud services to deliver the best customer experience.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop software and provide hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, and optimize Cloud services

• Improve the Security, Availability and Performance of the systems you build while managing Cloud Costs (COGS) and maintain Compliance guardrails. Build automation using industry tools (such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Ansible, etc.) to deploy hundreds of different services

• Promote and contribute to best practices in library usage and end-to-end architecture. Work with other development teams to design scalable, robust systems using cloud native architecture principles

• Identify and address patterns in infrastructure and applications that can be solved with a common solution

• Participate in a 24x7 on call rotation to ensure cloud service availability

Basic Qualifications

• A University Degree or equivalent experience in lieu of Degree, and minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience; or Master’s degree with 6 years; or PhD with 3 years of experience.

• Demonstrated proficiency with managing and deploying a cloud infrastructure at scale within a public cloud environment

• Experience managing deployments with Infrastructure-as-Code

• Experience with at least one of the major cloud providers: Azure, AWS, or GCP

• Expertise in developing applications and services using an Object-oriented programming language

• Experience with implementing and using observability platforms

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building Cloud services and distributed systems – deployment, monitoring, scaling, debugging is desirable

• Experience with container technologies: Kubernetes, Docker

• Expertise in specific languages, such as C#, Python, PowerShell, and Terraform

• Experience with Grafana, Splunk, or Application Insights

• Certifications for AWS or Azure solutions architect

About Us:

Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process, please email us at [email protected] for assistance.