Senior Software Engineer - Cloud

Job Overview

Join Mendix as a Senior Software Engineer - Cloud and be part of a team that is responsible for delivering a high-quality, high-availability cloud environment. You will be working on the Mendix Cloud, which hosts tens of thousands of mission-critical customer applications. This role involves developing and running the Mendix Cloud infrastructure and services that offer deployment, operations, and monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

• Software Development: Write software to automate the operations of our platform, enabling customers to perform more operations themselves. This will take up approximately 60% of your time.
• Operational Support: Solve operational issues for our customers by investigating technically and liaising between Mendix Support and other development teams. This will take up the remaining 40% of your time.
• On-call Support: Provide out-of-hours support for critical customer issues on an on-call basis.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Create and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to provide real-time visibility into the performance and availability of the platform and services.
• Reporting: Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to track key performance indicators and identify trends and issues.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong programming skills with good knowledge of infrastructure, particularly AWS.
• Experience with programming languages such as Golang and Python.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, or Prometheus.
• Proven experience (2+ years) administering, developing against, or architecting on a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong experience with containers and Linux/Unix systems.

Preferred Skills

• Passion for investigating complex issues and finding solutions in a platform with many distributed applications.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture/deployment and infrastructure services like web servers, load balancing, SSL/TLS/X509, etc.
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, and Grafana.
• Experience with cloud platform technologies like Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry.
• Experience with the Mendix low-code platform.

About Mendix

Mendix is a leading enterprise low-code application development platform. The Mendix Platform enables continuous collaboration between those who build the software and those who use it, accelerating the application development lifecycle and supporting iterative deployment at scale. Mendix is a Siemens business.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Mendix/Siemens is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state, or local law.