Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report, rated a leader by the analyst community, and named a top place to work by the Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Principal Software Engineer Acquia Inc. (Boston, MA):

Act as an integral member of the Cloud Data Services Team and ensures that the company’s software products are well engineered, operable, maintainable, and aligned with the strategy and vision of the business. Specifically, the Principal Software Engineer will perform the following duties: I nfluence and lead other product and engineering teams via quality of ideas, code and communication as a domain expert; interface with and influence internal stakeholders, including the CPO and CTO, engineering leads, product managers, and executives; diagram and document current and future architectural plans sufficiently that necessary stakeholders can understand how Acquia's technology works; drive deployment of new features or systems and the retirement of old ones, overcoming initial resistance to change from customers and employees; and deploy a solid understanding of the platform and how different parts interact with each other. Mentor other engineers. Write blogs, white papers, and demonstrate domain expertise for internal/external publication. Collaborate with vendors and influence their roadmap to align with Acquia’s long-term roadmap.

Actual Minimum Requirements:

Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, plus three years of related post master’s degree experience, or alternatively, a bachelor’s degree and eight years of related progressively responsible experience. Three years of minimum experience must be in a Drupal or comparable production setting. Three years of minimum experience must be in software development positions focused on the development of distributed systems using Ruby-based stacks and Amazon Web Services (AWS) and related tools such as PHP, Go and Python. Three years of minimum experience must also include (1) configuration management with tools such as Puppet, Ansible and Chef, (2) web security and compliance experience (e.g., Firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, DOS prevention and PCI, HIPAA, and FedRAMP) and (3) networking experience (e.g., TCP/IP, Routing, DNS, load balancing, HTTP caching, clustering and VPN).

Any suitable combination of education, experience and/or training is acceptable.

This position is part of Acquia Inc.’s employee referral program and eligible for employee referral incentive. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Please submit inquiries by e-mail only to [email protected] . Inquires must be addressed to Denise Lam with the following reference number ACQ180222 and include a cover letter and resume.