What you get to do

• Making an impact with your contribution in building the industry leading cloud platform as a service using Kubernetes as backbone in AWS cloud

• Craft microservices, components, & tools to automate the life cycle of highly available (HA), distributed services and applications on multiple platforms!

• Engineer quality, scalability, availability, and security into your code.

• Protect your products with the assurances of automated testing.

• Deploy containerized applications to AWS through your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment.

• Work with highly skilled team members, operations team, product managers, and architects as we collaborate to write code / algorithms, mentor one another and build infrastructure and software that matters.

• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

What you bring to Guidewire:

• 4-6 years of relevant work experience

• A discerning comprehension of standard REST API / gRPC for data interchange

• Practical experience with microservices architecture concepts like Service Discovery / API Gateway etc.

• Linux debugging skills

• Boundary-pushing software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent

• Advocate for IaaS abstractions, containers technologies & cloud platforms (like Kubernetes / Mesos / Cloud Foundry / OpenShift, Docker, AWS / GCP / Azure, Serverless)

• Promote proven architectures ("SOLID"/Hexagonal) and other design principles

• Methodically approach distributed tracing and monitoring of apps

• Reinforce sound repeatable automated services.

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Nice to Have

• Software development skills in one or more of the following frameworks & languages: Java / Golang / NodeJS / Python / equivalent

• Container technologies: Docker, Linux debugging

• Strong interpersonal skills, a demeanor emphasizing team wins over individual success

• Comfort working in an agile, social and fast-paced environment.

What you should know about this role:

• This is an hybrid-based position with the flexibility to WFH as applicable

• This position regularly involves pair programming.

• How our CCS group operates: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-cloud-common-services-engineer-c67cf3debc57

• What the general Interview process will be: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/preparing-to-interview-with-guidewire-cloud-common-services-team-7d0697592929

• Develop Multi-Tenant Cloud Platform that caters to running all Guidewire applications and services (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/guidewire-cloud-why-hybrid-tenancy-is-the-right-choice-56a0ff176032, https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/guidewire-cloud-why-hybrid-tenancy-is-the-right-choice-part-2-of-2-ba22c9888bb8

• Deeply involved in design and development of GWCP/ATMOS - infrastructure as code using technologies such as EKS (Kubernetes), Terraform, Golang. In addition handle Observability of the Platform (logs, metrics and traces). (Refer: https://medium.com/guidewire-engineering-blog/log-management-and-guidewire-cloud-platform-observability-73a033a34e9a)