Job Summary: Rackspace is hiring for a Software Engineer IV. In this exciting role you’ll be designing and creating a database from the ground up. This is not maintaining something that someone else created… you will truly be creating it!
Work Location: US-Remote

QUALIFICATIONS:

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• 6+ Years of software engineering experience on mission-critical, enterprise level systems

• 6+ Years of Linux systems experience, ideally Ubuntu, SUSE and CentOS, Managing large scale complex applications
• 6+ Years professional experience in Python language to automate infrastructure workflow
• Demonstrated Linux/Systems experience in hybrid (cloud, on-prem) environment
• Experience with Ansible, Salt or similar configuration management tool to manage infrastructure as code
• Experience working with cloud environments, primarily AWS
• Experience using Infrastructure-As-Code to build large scale environments
• Understanding of software development methodologies and practices, including agile development, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Experience in monitoring technologies like Sensu, Nagios, Icinga, Grafana, Prometheus
• Understanding Kubernetes, container lifecycle and troubleshooting
• Prefer- Hands-on knowledge of high-availability approaches such as load balancing, failover, clustering and disaster recovery
• Prefer- Container management/orchestration experience
• Prefer- Experience using LXD system containers

Discover your inner Racker: Racker Life

• Information on benefits is offered here: benefits

The following information is required by pay transparency legislation in the following states: CA, CO, HI, NY, and WA. This information applies only to individuals working in these states.

• The anticipated starting pay range for Colorado is: $128,300 - $188,210.
• The anticipated starting pay range for the states of Hawaii and New York (not including NYC) is: $136,600 - $200,310.
• The anticipated starting pay range for California, New York City and Washington is: $149,500 - $219,230.

Unless already included in the posted pay range and based on eligibility, the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonus, commissions, or other discretionary payments. These discretionary payments are based on company and/or individual performance and may change at any time. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. #LI-MF1

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• Support high complexity customers and internal teams on an as-needed basis.

• Collaborate with other teams on tools for systems automation and development.
• Work in conjunction with multiple teams to make sure that Rackspace infrastructure and customer applications work harmoniously together.