Platform Engineering - Software Engineer

The Linux Foundation is the world's leading organization for hosting the open source projects which are driving most modern computing. We are a 100% work from home organization with great health and 401(k) benefits and a supportive, collaborative culture.

Our team members have deep roots in open technology, with hundreds of years of collective experience in the field. We are passionate about software development and about unlocking the power of open technology to drive shared innovation for the collective benefit.

The platform engineering software engineer in the LF Education department is responsible for developing and maintaining the delivery platform(P3), which enables LF Education’s hands-on certifications and interactive training labs, and all supporting services. Your development and maintenance efforts will cover everything from learning content/certification exam procurement, delivery, scoring, and learner record management.

The P3 platform is built on cloud native technologies and delivers live interactive training and certification lab environments to thousands of learners every month. The LF Education’s goal is to increase entry-level technical talent for open source technologies while providing a revenue growth platform for the foundation and projects. The P3 platform plays a foundational role in achieving this goal.

Key responsibilities and expectations:

• Collaboration - Collaborate closely with stakeholders to identify, understand, and document project requirements. Additionally, the ability to collaborate effectively with team members, provide and receive constructive feedback, and align with the team's goals is essential to success in this role.

• Team Standards - Working within the existing team standards, ensuring consistency in solution delivery and processes, while actively contributing to the continuous improvement of standards based on personal experience, and project need.

• Test-Driven Development - Utilize test-driven development methodologies to translate stakeholder needs into high-quality, maintainable solutions.

• Personal Growth - Demonstrate a passion for improving expertise and applying new learnings to your work, while sharing learnings with the team that foster improvement and innovation.

• 3+ years experience working with production workloads running on Open Source and cloud-native technologies such as Linux and Kubernetes, 

• Proficiency in at least one programming language. We use Go and Python.

• Proficient with test driven development.

• Proficiency with Git, including topics such as cherry picking, squashing, and rebasing.

• Proficiency with building and maintaining CI/CD Pipelines. We use GitHub Actions.

• Proficiency with infrastructure as code. We use Terraform.

• Hands-on technical experience managing cloud services at scale. We leverage AWS and OCI.

• Practical experience with monitoring and observability systems.

• Designing, writing and working with APIs.

• Strong ability to communicate concepts, ideas, and requirements through the use of written communication and technical diagrams.

• Facilitate efficient communication across multiple time zones through flexible availability (US & APAC Timezones Preferred).

• Speaking with business stakeholders to identify and solve the right problems.

• Strong ability to work in a collaborative manner - propose, present and discuss ideas and solutions - “Collaborative by choice, autonomous when it’s necessary.”

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to work autonomously.

• Able to participate in an on-call roster which may include some weekend or after hours work.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.