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About the Role

The Staff Software Engineer is a position of technical expertise, influence, and leadership. This role involves applying expert knowledge to ensure best practices and well-engineered architecture, initiating major changes to processes and engineering practices, and solving critical issues across multiple teams. The position requires a deep understanding of cutting-edge practices and innovative approaches, while establishing and maintaining a positive culture based on WGU Leadership Principles.

Responsibilities

Design and develop cloud-native platforms and services that support enterprise software delivery.
Build reusable platform capabilities using Go, Python, and Java.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision and manage AWS resources.
Design and implement GitOps deployment strategies using Argo CD.
Develop cloud solutions that improve resiliency, security, observability, and operational efficiency.
Design highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems running in AWS.
Design, develop, test, and maintain production software using Go (Golang), Python, and Java.
Build REST APIs, backend services, automation tools, and event-driven applications.
Develop internal platform services supporting cloud operations, deployments, and infrastructure management.
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following modern software engineering practices.
Contribute to shared libraries, automation frameworks, and platform tooling.
Design and implement solutions utilizing AWS services including EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, IAM, CloudWatch, S3.
Develop Kubernetes-based platforms supporting enterprise workloads.
Build secure, scalable cloud-native architectures using Infrastructure as Code.
Collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize cloud performance, cost, and operational maturity.
Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
Develop deployment automation using Argo CD and GitOps methodologies.
Design reusable Kubernetes deployment patterns.
Build CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning.
Automate operational tasks to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong experience developing software using Go (Golang) and Python
Experience with Java and Spring Boot
Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS
Experience developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Experience deploying and operating applications in Kubernetes
Experience implementing GitOps workflows using Argo CD or similar technologies
Experience designing distributed systems and RESTful APIs
Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

Skills

Go (Golang)
Python
Java
Spring Boot
AWS
Terraform
Kubernetes
Argo CD
GitOps
RESTful APIs
CI/CD pipelines
Cloud-native applications
Distributed systems
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
EKS
ECS
EC2
Lambda
Fargate
IAM
CloudWatch
S3

Work Type

Full-Time Regular
40 standard weekly hours

Experience Level

8+ years of professional software engineering experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)

Salary/Compensations

$161,000.00 - $249,500.00

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
Health savings account and flexible spending account
Basic and voluntary life insurance
Disability coverage
Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
Legal and identity theft coverage
Retirement savings plan
Wellbeing program
Discounted WGU tuition
Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
11 paid holidays
Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

About the Company

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals.
The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders.
Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.