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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** UKG Inc.
- **Location:** Atlanta, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $129,500.0 - $186,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Adobe InDesign, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, Confluence, JIRA, Automation of Tests, Unit Testing, Microsoft Azure, Code Review, Software Design Patterns, Github, Jinja (Template Engine), Python (Programming Language), Ansible, Microsoft SharePoint, Software Engineering, Software Testing Automation Framework, Cloud-native Network Functions (CNF), Google Cloud, Information Technology, Terraform, Software Version Control, Golang
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-ukg-10395577

## About the Role

* Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Terraform, Ansible and GitHub.
 * Proven 5+ years recent experience triaging cases that come from incidents or product defects in public cloud platforms.
 * Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.
 * Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. * 8-10+ years of professional software and IaC development experience.
 * Any Public Cloud Certification., * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
 * Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
 * Experience in both private and public cloud infrastructure.
 * Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
 * Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
 * Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
 * Strong skills in problem solving and leading a multi-disciplinary room

## Description

This is a Staff Software Engineer - Network role is responsible for developing, automating, and scaling network and infrastructure services using software engineering and infrastructure-as-code. This individual should have a software engineering mindset and leverage code and AI tooling to design, develop, deploy, manage and support services via CI/CD pipelines., * Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features in Google cloud and its network systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

 * Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code or various software applications and systems.
 * Service Health and Quality: Maintain the health and quality of Cloud Network infrastructure services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues. 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.
 * Project Management: Voluntarily takes the lead in a project, Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, Sets and communicates project objectives, negotiating project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.
 * 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 IaC ( Infrastructure as code) define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using, tools like Terraform, Ansible, Python, Golang, Jinja, Helm and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation as the guide.
 * Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials in Confluence, Sharepoint, Github repo.
 * Leadership capabilities: Takes the lead in projects, Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, sets and communicates objectives, commits (and delivers) on priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.
 * On-call support: Rotation On-Call duty for incidents.
 * Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex Infrastructure applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance. Identifies opportunities to advocate for efficient process change and improvements.