Senior Software Engineer App Foundations at PagerDuty

The App Foundation team in PagerDuty has dual ownership - the authentication platform and the app ecosystem. Our mission is to help users seamlessly authenticate through various mechanisms from a variety of clients. You will also be working closely with other product development teams internally who will leverage our platform to build new products.

We are also going to start building an app store for PagerDuty. Come help us kick off the group that’ll be responsible for building the app store from the ground up. In this role, you’ll play a key technical leadership role across development teams working to define and build the app store. 

As a Senior Engineer on our team, you’ll be part of a group that’s intensely focused on our customers and the engineering community. We design, build, and run robust systems that extend and enhance our amazing products. 

How You Contribute to Our Vision: Key Responsibilities

• From day one, you’ll be designing, coding, testing and shipping backend applications, microservices, APIs or front-end interfaces that ensure we deliver secure, highly reliable and scalable solutions to our customers.
• Since we own and operate what we build, you’ll collaborate closely with engineers across teams.
• We test in production, so you’ll be involved in planning and running experiments where we deliberately stress our systems to find weaknesses and fix them proactively. 
• With 10,000+ global customers and growing, you’ll be solving really interesting technical challenges while helping to scale our product to keep up with demand. 
• You will work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to build solutions that solve customer problems.
• You will be participating in your team’s on-call rotation, triaging and addressing production issues as they arise.

About You: Skills and Attributes

• You have experience working on highly available distributed systems
• You have a drive to get results without letting anything get in your way.
  You have excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• You are empathetic - you can clearly communicate your thoughts and opinions to others and facilitate these technical discussions to a successful outcome.
• You can prioritize and execute multiple tasks in a highly dynamic environment with a results-oriented mindset.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of development experience, designing and operating large SaaS applications with scalability, availability, and the customer top of mind. 
• Experience working in an agile environment with iterative development and fast feedback
• Experience with at least one modern programming language such as React, Java, Elixir, Python, Ruby etc
• Experience with tools that ensure your high quality work makes a smooth, automated, repeatable transition from your machine to our staging and production environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the AWS cloud ecosystem
• Experience working with authentication system such as OAuth and/or SAML
• Experience integrating with third party libraries
• Experience building third party app ecosystems

Not sure if you qualify?

Apply anyway! We extend opportunities to a broad array of candidates, including those with diverse workplace experiences and backgrounds. Whether you're new to the corporate world, returning to work after a gap in employment, or simply looking to transition or take the next step in your career path, we are excited to connect with you.

PagerDuty Offers

We are dedicated to providing a culture where our people are happy, enabled and inspired to do their best. One of the ways we do this is by developing a comprehensive total rewards approach that supports employees and their loved ones. As a global organization, our programs are competitive with industry standards and aligned with local laws and regulations. 

Your package may include:

• Competitive salary and company equity
• Comprehensive benefits package from day one
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)
• Retirement or pension plan
• Paid parental leave - up to 22 weeks for pregnant parent, up to 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)
• Generous paid vacation time 
• Paid holidays and sick leave
• Paid employee volunteer time - 20 hours per year
• Bi-annual company-wide hack weeks
• Mental wellness programs
• Dutonian Wellness Days - scheduled company-wide paid days off in addition to PTO and scheduled holidays
• HibernationDuty - a week each year when everyone at PagerDuty, with the exception of a small, coverage crew, is asked to take a much needed break to truly disconnect and recharge

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management, serving over 14,000 customers and 850,000 users worldwide, including 65% of the Fortune 100. 

For the teams who build and run digital systems, PagerDuty is the best way to manage the urgent, mission-critical work that is essential to keeping digital services always on. We make it easy to handle any unplanned task, event, or opportunity, right away.

Led by CEO Jennifer Tejada, 50% of our board of directors is comprised of women, 45% of our managers are from underrepresented groups, and we are a proud member of the Pledge 1% Movement, committed to donating 1% Equity, 1% Employee time, and 1% Product to accelerate change in our communities. We are Great Place to Work-certified™ and our product is top rated in its category on TrustRadius. 

From how we build our teams to who sits in the boardroom, we hope you can see yourself at PagerDuty.

Learn more: Social Impact; Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity; Culture

Additional Information

PagerDuty is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status.

PagerDuty is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. Should you require accommodation, please email accommodation@pagerduty.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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