Bigcommerce
Lead Software Engineer - Remote
United States - Remote, USA · Senior · Full-time
No sponsorship$110k-$216kDetected 146 days ago
GoRubyPHPScalaBashSQLDockerKubernetesTerraformAnsibleLinuxPrometheusDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringExcelCollaborationProblem Solving
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59Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role80
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- This role is open for remote work within U.S. time zones or can be based in our Austin, Texas office.
- Our team consists of a talented group of individuals with expertise in web operations, systems administration and software engineering.
- Currently you will find us predominantly working in Golang, Ruby, and Scala, backed up by Terraform and Puppet for provisioning and configuration management.
Responsibilities
- Apply software engineering and SRE principles to create tools, services, and automation for building, monitoring and operating complex infrastructure and service-oriented architectures
- Collaborate on platform-level initiatives that drive engineering automation and efficiency across the organization
- Participate in planning and technical design sessions, contributing to their successful execution
Requirements
- Take full ownership of issues and projects, driving them to completion with a high degree of autonomy
- Experience in UNIX systems administration, along with proficiency in Golang, Ruby, PHP, or Bash
- Hands-on experience with Docker and orchestration tools such as Nomad (we use Nomad), Kubernetes, or Amazon ECS
- Experience with observability and application performance monitoring (APM) tools, such as Alertmanager, ELK, Prometheus, New Relic, Sentry and Lightstep
Skills
- Welcome to the Agentic Commerce Era
Compensation
- The national base salary range for this role is posted above in this job post.
Benefits
- 5+ years of experience in building software, operating, or supporting large-scale Linux based service-oriented architectures, with expertise in SQL systems as a bonus
- A deep interest in learning and working with new technologies and programming languages
- We also consider internal equity to help ensure fair and consistent pay practices across our teams.
- Where applicable, this role may also be eligible for variable compensation (such as bonus or commission), equity, and benefits in accordance with local policies.
- We are committed to equitable and transparent pay practices that align to market data, internal equity, and individual contribution.
Company info
- Welcome to the Agentic Commerce Era At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem.
- We believe in harnessing AI responsibly to unlock new possibilities, and we're looking for individuals who use it intentionally to solve problems, accelerate outcomes, and expand what's possible in their role.
- If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers who shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.
- At Commerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community.
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