Associate Software Engineer

at  Perforce

Perforce is a community of collaborative experts, problem solvers, and possibility seekers who believe work should be both challenging and fun. We are proud to inspire creativity, foster belonging, support collaboration, and encourage wellness. At Perforce, you’ll work with and learn from some of the best and brightest in business. Before you know it, you’ll be in the middle of a rewarding career at a company headed in one direction: upward.
With a global footprint spanning more than 80 countries and including over 75% of the Fortune 100, Perforce Software, Inc. is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions for the toughest challenges. The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce.

POSITON SUMMARY:

The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce. This position will support our Puppet brand. Puppet is the industry-leading automation solution for configuration management, compliance, CI/CD, patch management, IT automation, and more. We at Perforce are searching for an Associate Software Engineer to join the team.
This is an entry level position with the business allowing successful applicants to learn professional concepts from their team or technical leaders. Associate Software Engineers contribute to assignments as part of a team within one Engineering function and will implement solutions with direct guidance and contribute to project deliverables with guidance from senior technical experts.

REQUIREMENTS:

• You are studying Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject and are currently on track to graduate in for a 2:1 or higher.
• Available to start in September 2025
• You have a good understanding of algorithms, data structures and programming
• You are familiar with the software development life cycle and understand version control.
• You possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
• You apply logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
  Come work with us! Our team members are valued for their contributions, introduced to new opportunities, and rewarded well. Perforce combines the experience and rewards of a start-up with the security of an established and privately held profitable company.
  If you are passionate about the technology that impacts our day-to-day lives and want to work with talented and dedicated people across the globe, apply today!

• Create documentation about features you develop that is sufficient for others in your team to understand what has been done and how to use the deliverables
• Analyse performance and security of the components you are working with and provide input for improvements
• Do meaningful code reviews for other developers in your agile team
• Write unit and integration tests for the code changes
• Work with rest of the agile team to break down business requirements into technical tasks
• Understanding of technologies including but not limited to: - Cloud/Containers (Docker, AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Google Platform) - Frontend (JavaScript frameworks, HTML, CSS)
• Backend Languages (Go, Clojure, Java) - Databases (PostgreSQL)
• Automated testing (Ruby, Selenium)
• DevOps and Configuration Management