Software Development Architect

Job Description

About GoDaddy

GoDaddy powers the world's largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures. With nearly 18 million customers worldwide and over 77 million domain names under management, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company visit www.GoDaddy.com.

You apply expert-level knowledge of CS principles and web development best practices every day to constantly innovate and improve the platform. You seek to automate, instrument, and make data driven decisions. You strive to enable our business partners and end-customers connect in new ways that help them succeed. You are experienced with CI/CD and development best practices and can mentor new developers confidently. You are comfortable in all aspects of agile development methodology and know how to direct Scrum ceremonies. You can develop novel new software libraries, features and entire services or applications from scratch with little direction and can design and socialize important software updates across the team and organization. You have an organization-wide approach and are capable of working with several teams from different parts of the company together to validate broad, far-reaching software designs, divide work for implementation and drive good process, code review and testing methodologies across a larger group.

About GoDaddy

GoDaddy's mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. GoDaddy powers the world's largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures. With nearly 18.5 million customers worldwide and over 73 million domain names under management, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company visit www.godaddy.com.

APPLICATION SERVICES

The Application Services team provides mission-critical processes, services and applications that operate at global scale, serving highly dynamic content to 56 markets in 30 languages, handling millions of requests per day, all with industry leading page performance. The team writes the specifications, documentation, reference implementations for core GoDaddy services and applications and provides core libraries, runtimes and onboarding to the platforms and clouds that GoDaddy runs on.

We’re looking for passionate developers who love to dive in to technology and pull it all apart to see how it works, then put it back together again better than it was before. We treasure curiosity, communication, a bias towards collaboration and action and the desire to embrace and extend best practices and patterns. If you’re the kind of person who can’t see something that isn’t right without a compulsion to make it at least just a little bit better before you put it back, we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and test the various applications that comprise our platform

Continuously refine existing systems to improve their reliability, performance, and manageability

Provide operational support for critical customer-facing systems as well as internal APIs and tools

Collaboratively design and document next generation systems

You apply expert-level knowledge of CS principles and web development best practices every day to constantly innovate and improve the platform. You seek to automate, instrument, and make data driven decisions. You strive to enable our business partners and end-customers connect in new ways that help them succeed. You are experienced with CI/CD and development best practices and can mentor new developers confidently. You are comfortable in all aspects of agile development methodology and know how to direct Scrum ceremonies. You can develop novel new software libraries, features and entire services or applications from scratch with little direction and can design and socialize important software updates across the team and organization. You have an organization-wide approach and are capable of working with several teams from different parts of the company together to validate broad, far-reaching software designs, divide work for implementation and drive good process, code review and testing methodologies across a larger group.

Requirements:

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Math, or equivalent degree or experience

10+ years of relevant full-time software engineering experience

OpenStack and Kubernetes experience a huge plus

Knowledge of backend runtimes such as apache, nginx, and runtime frameworks such as Spring, WSGI

Knowledge of front-end languages and frameworks (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJS, Bootstrap)

Knowledge of Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS) or Go

Experience with multiple data platforms is a plus (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Cassandra)

Experience with ELK stack (Kibana) and monitoring tools like New Relic or Sensu

Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools and best practices (Jenkins, Pipelines)

Familiarity with Agile (Scrum) software development, Git/GitHub, and related tools

Comfortable with Git

Passion for self-driven, continuous learning both in and out of the office

Excellent communication skills are required to be able to convey technical issues and details to non-technical users

GoDaddy has been recognized because of its outstanding benefits, compensation, unique perks, diversity and company camaraderie.

GoDaddy’s philanthropic work supports a wide variety of charitable and community organizations dedicated to causes including women and children, domestic violence, child abuse, teenage homelessness, animal shelters and more. Visit www.GoDaddyCares.com for more information.

GoDaddy's Engineering Blog,godaddy.github.io, is a great place to catch up with what our developers are up to.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion,sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.

If you need assistance completing an application for a position with us, please reach out to our Recruiting Team at [email protected]

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.

If you need assistance completing an application for a position with us, please reach out to our Recruiting Team at [email protected]

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