Software Engineer (Contract)
- Contract
Company Description
The Linux Foundation is creating the greatest shared technology investment in history by enabling open source collaboration across companies, developers, and users. We are the organization of choice to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.The Linux Foundation is creating the greatest shared technology investment in history by enabling open source collaboration across companies, developers, and users. We are the organization of choice to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.
Job Description
The Linux Foundation LFX ITX team is looking for a Software Engineer to improve and expand the services we provide to our growing number of Open Source projects. They will be focused on backend development of APIs that automate IT Service tasks, fixing bugs, writing tests, breaking down complex tasks, and improving infrastructure.
This role can be located anywhere in the US.
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain cloud-native microservices written in Golang
Work with Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes and other cloud native tools
Leverage GitHub Actions to automate deployments
Investigate bug reports and fix code
Break down complex tasks into smaller, actionable tasks
Write interface tests
Constantly driving to improve and optimize our platform and identify opportunities for process improvement
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science related field or equivalent work experience
5+ years of relevant technical experience, preferably in cloud environments
Golang experience, 2+ years of experience
Exceptional collaboration skills in a team environment
Understanding of modern microservice architecture: API Gateways, non-relational databases, AWS Lambda or similar platforms, Oauth2, etc
Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm and other related infrastructure experience
Experience working with bug reports and debugging
Experience with automating common IT infrastructure preferred: DNS, Email, Mailing Lists, etc.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.