Software Engineer-Developer Experience

Joyent powers the global cloud infrastructure and developer platform providing back-end services for Samsung's billions of devices. Joyent's data center footprint is within 100ms latency to 70% of the world's population, while our multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based developer platform extends our reach to additional resource regions. We're operating at hyperscale to power workloads that bring capability and delight to Samsung's employees and customers.

Job Summary:

We are in need of adding a Software Engineer (Developer Experience) to help with the new initiatives. This position is heavily utilizing Terraform and Kubernetes, you will be focused on working with newer technologies and solving problems related to Infrastructure-as-Code, CI, and CD. You will participate in Samsung’s cloud initiatives to utilize Kubernetes

Job Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a standardized Terragrunt directory structure organized by account, region, environment, and category to ensure scalable, easily navigable configurations
• Refactor and migrate legacy Terraform stacks by moving modules and resources between state files, then reapplying state to new projects to minimize downtime and drift
• Architect cross-account and cross-cloud-provider deployments by leveraging best-practice RBAC roles and permission sets, enabling least-privilege access patterns
• Enforce DRY principles by leveraging Terragrunt wrappers to reduce code duplication, promote module reuse, and streamline maintenance
• Enforce DRY principles by leveraging Kubernetes configuration tools, such as Tanka/Jsonnet/Helm/Kustomize, to manage multi-cloud/region/environment deployments from a central location

Skills & Competencies

• Familiarity with GitOps and utilizing github action runners (and knowledge on self-

hosted runners) particularly for kubernetes related workloads

• Understanding of cicd pipeline concepts (jenkins knowledge is also helpful)
• Understanding of Linux Administration (rocky/centos/rhel and ubuntu)
• Familiar with configuration management tools (ansible is a must)
• Ability to analyze complex problems and come up with effective solutions in a cloud

context.

• Able to communicate effectively with members of the team in different time zones and

cross-functionals teams including DevOps, architects, and business stakeholders.

• Basic project management skills to manage tasks, timelines, and priorities effectively.
• The ability to analyze data and metrics to make data-driven decisions for optimizing

cloud resources and performance.

• Ownership -Take ownership of projects, ensuring excellence in execution and accountability

for results. Foster a sense of responsibility and pride in delivering high-quality work

• Innovation - Drive innovation by proposing and implementing creative solutions to

challenges. Stay abreast of industry trends and technologies, bringing fresh ideas to the

table

• Customer focus - Understand and prioritize customer needs, striving to exceed expectations

in every interaction. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of

customer-centric solutions

• Teamwork - Embrace a collaborative and inclusive approach, working seamlessly with

colleagues to achieve common goals

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with configuration management tools such as ansible
• Experience running kubernetes workloads on various clouds including AWS, GCP and Azure
• Experience with custom integrations such as slack, bots, jira or any other tooling that

may be required

• Experience with security with tools such as Hashicorp Vault and understanding of

security policies on various cloud providers

• Developer experience with golang and python or similar programming languages
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies
• Experience with making cloud-init based images and automation of software installation

on Linux

Joyent is committed to employing a diverse workforce and providing Equal Employment Opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation for this position will vary among specific regions due to geographical differentials in the labor market, and actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills, experience, and comparison to other employees in the role. Therefore, the annual base compensation range for this role (depending on the geographical location) is expected to be between $150000 and $180000.

Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k), Employee Purchase Program, Vacation and Sick leave, electronic reimbursement and many more. In addition, regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) are eligible for bonus compensation based on individual, department, and company performance.

About Joyent

Joyent, a wholly-owned affiliate of Samsung, is the open cloud company. Joyent builds technology, at the pinnacle of scale, performance, stability, and security to accelerate the transformation toward the mobile and cloud-centric world. Joyent designs, builds and manages market competitive cloud computing solutions and services for Samsung Electronics and its partners at global scale.