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.
As part of the Appian Platform Engineering team, you will be responsible for building the cloud infrastructure that powers the Appian platform. This isn’t your average software developer role. On the Platform Engineering team, you’ll learn about a wide range of technologies and tackle new challenges as you add features and functionality to the Appian cloud infrastructure.
Hundreds of companies, including many of the world’s largest organisations, run their business applications on Appian Cloud. This means our infrastructure must be highly secure, highly scalable, and highly available. And because our infrastructure includes thousands of servers and supports hundreds of thousands of end users, this means your work will have a significant impact from day one!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar and a history of academic success, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Fluent in at least one programming language and comfortable working with Object-Oriented programming concepts
• Experience with SQL databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, Amazon RDS, etc.)
• Experience with public cloud computing offerings such as: AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience working in a Linux environment

• Previous industry software development experience (either full-time work experience or internships)
• The ability to respond to new problems and write software to stop bugs in their tracks
• Awareness of concepts like: availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency (and how they relate to the software you write)
• The ability to leverage knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns