Senior Software Engineer

Citrix Engineering team is looking for a Senior Cloud Software Development Engineer to join our Core Engineering team that is responsible for developing Enterprise class next generation Software/Cloud Solutions. Develop software and provide hands-on technical expertise to design, develop, deploy and optimize Cloud services on multiple public cloud platforms. The engineering team is responsible for the end to end ownership of the Security, Availability, Performance, Compliance, Cost/COGS, Change management, Monitoring, Emergency response and capacity planning of the respective Citrix cloud services. He/she is expected to drive technical architectures and standards/processes forward to deliver the best customer experience. This position requires strong technical communication and problem-solving skills and the ability to engage and interact with numerous external teams.

Job Description:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and implement Enterprise grade web applications and REST API services using a microservice-based architecture in large Public Clouds. The major technology stack includes .Net/C#/Python, the Azure/AWS/GCP PaaS services, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), RDBMS, NoSQL, and advanced knowledge on CI/CD (TeamCity/Jenkins) & IaC (Terraform) tools/technologies. You will help us build an autonomous cloud capable of reliably serving 1+ billion customers. We build autonomy into our products, tools, and environments. Engineering a solution that can withstand failure and scaling challenges is paramount to our success.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• You are a Senior Software Engineer who knows how to apply engineering principles to operations. You have demonstrable experience developing and managing a multi-tenanted SaaS. You are well versed in many technologies and welcome new tools and techniques.
• You need to provide hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, secure, and optimize Cloud services.
• You are data driven, have the skill and ability to notice/observe patterns and ways to increase efficiency, eliminate downtime, optimize costs, maintain performance at scale and achieve business outcomes.
• Design, analyze and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems.
• Work with fellow developers and operations members to come to the best possible solution.
• Responsible for building & managing multiple cloud services, using advanced knowledge on CI/CD & IAC tools/technologies like - Terraform, Kubernetes (AKS), Team City, Jenkins, Serverless architectures, ARM, PowerShell.
• Use logging platforms and improve application performance using Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, Azure App Insights, Log Analytics etc.
• Responsible for securing end to end Cloud services using best practices – key handling, access control, threat remediation
• You have a good understanding of security concepts at scale.
• Follow proactive monitoring best practices to keep up with Citrix Cloud service SLA’s.
• You will build innovative automated solutions and tools to help debug and resolve problems in production and prevent them from recurring. Further, you will proactively seek out system weaknesses and find ways to fix them before they cause production issues using monitoring data, watching trends, and using Chaos Engineering

Required Experience/Skills:

• You have at least 4-7 years of software development experience with one or more Object Oriented languages, preferably in .Net, C# or Python
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, SOLID principles, complexity analysis, software design and debugging.
• You have hands on experience building Cloud services and distributed systems – design, develop, deployment, monitoring, scaling, debugging.
• You are proficient in one or more large public cloud providers Azure (preferred), AWS or GCP, or in large-scale PaaS/SaaS on any platform.
• Ability to build highly Secure & resilient, Enterprise-grade Cloud Microservices, RESTful APIs.
• Clear understanding of cloud PaaS/IaaS concepts and practical application of multiple cloud services (AF, ASB, Azure Storage, Containers, Networking, Compute, API Management, Dev Ops…)
• Advanced knowledge on CI/CD & IAC tools/technologies like - Terraform/Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Kubernetes (AKS), Team City, Jenkins, Serverless architectures, ARM, PowerShell
• You have worked to provide hands-on technical expertise to design, deploy, secure, and optimize Cloud services.
• Must be proactive systematic problem-solver, analytical, data driven showcasing end to end accountability and communication.
• Should have exposure to systems or applications at scale

Nice-to-Haves

• Safe Agile concepts
• JavaScript, React.js framework
• Knowledge of Docker or any container technologies
• Experience in working with enterprise scale multi-tenant public SaaS platforms

Education​al Qualification:

• A preferred educational qualification for this role includes holding a Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology (BE/BTech/BS) or higher, in Computer Science (CS) or Information Technology (IT), from a top-tier engineering institution.