[Hiring] Intermediate Development Engineer @Activestate

Role Description

As a Development Engineer on our team, you will be helping us build our products across multiple platforms.

• Our day to day work practices are centered around GitHub, pull requests, code review, CI for testing, and agile development with Jira as our project management tool.
• Coordinate with team members using Slack for chat, Zoom for video calls and screen sharing, Pivotal Tracker, and Google Drive.
• Use and contribute back to the open source ecosystem, open sourcing both libraries and tools developed in-house as long as those are not mission-critical code.

Key Responsibilities

• Own & Drive Your Work: Complete assigned tasks independently, ensuring high-quality, well-documented, and tested solutions.
• Identify unclear or incomplete work, ensuring that it has an appropriate owner and is actionable.
• Build & Package Management: Manage packaging updates with an emphasis on reliability and automation.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in the build pipeline and deployment process.
• Maintenance & Growth: Maintain and improve package stability through proactive monitoring and issue resolution.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience
• High Proficiency in at least one of the following language ecosystems (Go, Dotnet, Rust, C#, Java, JavaScript) and desire to learn other languages
• Familiarity with the Standards and practices of the language ecosystem
• Compiling language modules from a specified language ecosystem
• Runtime testing language modules from a specified language ecosystem
• Computer Science Degree or equivalent
• Experience with software build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or automated deployment tools
• Low level understanding of Linux binaries
• Experience with compiling code, and linking
• Ability to independently manage tasks and identify gaps in work, ensuring alignment with broader goals
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on risk assessment and long-term platform reliability
• Clear and effective communication—able to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A proactive and collaborative approach, volunteering to help teammates and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing
• A curiosity-driven mindset, capable of defining and executing experiments to improve processes

Assets

• Experience working on a build system
• Agile processes, including breaking large projects up into smaller stories, estimation, working in branches (GitHub Flow), code review, and CI
• C or C++ code and debugging compiler issues across platforms
• Experience writing Python code
• Experience developing tools, or automating tasks
• Experience writing Dockerfiles
• Java, C-Sharp, JavaScript, Go, R, Perl, Python, Tcl, or Ruby, especially an understanding of their respective language communities and their toolchains
• Build tools such as make, autotools, cmake, meson, bazel, etc.
• Security hardening and remediation
• Experience with AI

Benefits

• A remote-first culture with a focus on work-life balance and flexibility
• The opportunity to work on a mission-driven product that has a meaningful impact on the global software ecosystem
• A collaborative and innovative environment with a team of passionate and talented individuals