Here at Appian, our core values of Respect, Work to Impact, Ambition, and Constructive Dissent & Resolution define who we are. In short, this means we constantly seek to understand the best for our customers, we go beyond completion in our work, we strive for excellence with intensity, and we embrace candid communication. These values guide our actions and shape our culture every day. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team that’s dedicated to accomplishing hard things.
The goal of our Platform Engineering team is to make it easy for our service teams to build and run production systems. As an experienced engineer in Platform Engineering, you will be helping re-architect our platform to run on public, private, and hybrid clouds and to allow for frequent, predictable and high impact changes. You will ensure that our world-class infrastructure is always available, responsive, and capable of meeting the diverse needs of our customers.
Right now this role is focused on building features that enable network connectivity between our platform and external networks. This will likely change and evolve over time, so this will give you an idea of the type of work you will be doing when you start.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years experience designing, building and architecting software in an enterprise software or SaaS/PaaS environment
• Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language and comfortable working with Object-Oriented programming concepts
• Experience driving projects to impact
• Experience working in a Linux environment
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
  This role is based at our office at Level 42, 25 Martin Place, Sydney. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.

• The ability to leverage knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to write software in a cloud infrastructure environment, using tools such as: Python, Go, Java, Terraform, Pulumi, CI/CD pipelines, RDBMS, No-SQL DBs, etc.
• Solid knowledge of AWS services like: EKS, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, VPC networking, and S3 (or equivalent cloud provider experience)
• Familiarity with networking and security best practices in the cloud
• Experience providing technical leadership to drive pragmatic solutions and dive into impactful design decisions
• Experience coaching junior engineers and championing best practices across your team
• Experience operating business-critical production services
• Experience automating the creation and configuration of cloud resources and services on-demand