Software Engineer III - Cloud Platform

Why UKG:  

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.

About The Team:

 UKG is looking for a Senior Software Engineer III – Eng to build and maintain our public/private cloud’s PaaS layer (Platform as a Service). This is a specialized team that abstracts the complexities of Infrastructure, Networking, and Security requirements to ensure they are consumed in standardized ways for supporting Applications. These services are built in Linux leveraging various technologies including Go, Ansible, K8s, GKE, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Openstack, to name a few. This position will partner with our Agile development teams to assure smooth integration and deployment of UKG software across the entire cloud infrastructure.  

This work is in the Engineering Acceleration group supporting internal product teams in their deployments. The right software engineer background and experience will be with cloud technologies and a desire to master them.

 

About the Role

• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code or various software applications and systems.
• Dev Ops Model: Understanding of working in a DevOps Model. Taking ownership from working with product management on requirements to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain the software in production
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools
• Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex software applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code and infrastructure scripts using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Code Review: Diligent about reviewing code developed by other developers, provide feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from ground up, unit tests etc.
• Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using, tools (e.g., Junit, Selenium) and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.
• Service Health and Quality: Maintain Total Lifecycle Management of all services provided.
• Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action providing recommendations to optimize performance. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.
• Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials.

 

About You:
Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• 4 years of experience with at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Golang, Ruby, Python, C++
• 1 year+ of GitOps/DevOps experience or, building Infrastructure as Code pipelines or processes to support large teams
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, and public cloud deployment platforms
• Experience designing and administering CI/CD pipelines
• Proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale, complex software projects.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, GCP, and version control systems like GitHub.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience and deep understanding GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or similar GitOps and CI/CD platforms for Kubernetes application deployment, release orchestration, traffic routing, and lifecycle management or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master.
• Extensive experience with GitO