What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Software Engineer position at ForgeRock?
The Role:
As a Software Engineer in the ForgeRock Identity Cloud team, you will be helping to provide over a billion people with simple and secure access to the connected world. We have a relentless focus on automation, so you will be writing code on a daily basis, as well as staying up-to-date with cutting edge technologies. Kubernetes and GCP are key for us, and we write most of our code in Golang, although we are a polyglot team where constant learning is vital. You would be joining a genuinely team-based agile environment where people skills really matter. We have retained the startup mentality, but with enough muscle to make a real difference.
Responsibilities:
- Work as part of a highly agile team, taking part in the full spectrum of team activities including planning, design, implementation, validation, and retrospection.
- Become familiar with the ForgeRock Identity Platform, working together with engineering teams and leadership in order to achieve our strategic goals. You will be focusing particularly on improving automation of our as-a-service offerings by developing software, incorporating services and leveraging tools.
- Use the latest development technologies to build the distributed service automation that operates our online services. Experience in Golang, Kubernetes and SaaS application building are right up our alley.
- Develop and expand our ecosystem of composable, reusable, isolated, single-purpose services, with a keen eye on good API design and usage
- Create highly testable and rock-solid service implementations
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Make important engineering decisions that balance numerous non-engineering factors with technical considerations
- Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services -- participate in a data-driven culture
- Research, prototype, and implement solutions to thorny data and scale problems using the best available tools
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, continuously working to adapt to ever-evolving customer needs
If you find yourself checking off most of the below, this could be the position for you!
- Background in development using one or more programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, JavaScript, etc
- Working knowledge of Agile development methodologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes concepts and associated tools such as Kustomize
- Use of modern CI/CD tools for delivery and automation
- A keen interest in security
- Technical know-how of latest Cloud compute technologies, load balancing and scaling, storage, networking, security and virtualization technologies, including administering or operating on cloud-based platforms such as Amazon AWS EC2, Microsoft Azure and Google GCP
- Some familiarity with Linux / UNIX system administration