Sr. Software Development Engineer

Location Details: United States - Remote

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.​

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.  

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

Join our team

Our Control Plane horizontal team is on the lookout for a passionate Sr Software Development Engineer to help orchestrate and configure our hosting products, including Managed WooCommerce Stores, Managed WordPress, and Pagely. This team of 12 engineers and 1 manager is currently focused on building a revolutionary multi-tenant WordPress hosting platform.

Join a team where your contributions will have a significant impact, and you'll be surrounded by brilliant engineers and architects, all while engaging with cutting-edge technology in a highly collaborative environment. If you are passionate about learning and thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, we'd love to hear from you!

What you'll get to do…

• Take ownership of designing and building key components of a PaaS platform for running WordPress in a containerized, auto-scaling environment.
• Collaborate with engineers from the multiple teams, SREs, product managers, and architects to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies and work with remote colleagues across the globe.
• Contribute to projects with C-suite level visibility and become a part of one of the most heavily invested areas in the organization.
• Work on exciting projects like building tooling to migrate 1 million applications, unifying workflows on AWS step functions, and improving the platform's provisioning time, stability, and scalability.

Your experience should include...

• 5+ years in software engineering, focusing on large-scale distributed applications or solutions.
• 4+ years of cloud computing experience, preferably with AWS.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go and PHP.
• Experience with Docker, CDK, and deploying code using CI/CD technologies like GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Strong skills in writing unit, integration, and smoke tests, as well as automation of processes from build tools to monitoring.
• Familiarity with both relational and NoSQL databases and a strong focus on code quality and high development standards.
• Independent problem-solving abilities.

You may also have…

• Familiarity with container orchestration platforms like Nomad or Kubernetes.
• Experience with WordPress and AWS services such as S3, API Gateway, Lambda, ECS.
• Experience working in agile teams and a continuous drive for learning and improving.

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com. 

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