Great Value Hiring is seeking a Software Engineering Specialist to work on key infrastructure and developer experience initiatives. The role involves building scalable systems, improving developer workflows, and standardizing infrastructure practices.
Responsibilities:
- Improve CI performance, reliability, and observability
- Build runner autoscaling and system hardening
- Implement alerting and notification systems
- Increase visibility into CI pipelines and failures
- Enhance CLI usability and discoverability
- Build telemetry, observability, and performance improvements for CLI tools
- Improve SDK/shared library ergonomics (stable APIs, versioning, templates)
- Develop tooling insights (e.g., usage visibility)
- Manage and optimise SaaS tools and configurations
- Build systems for procurement intake and vendor inventory
- Implement and maintain: Google Workspace administration, SAML-based SSO, SCIM provisioning with RBAC controls
- Build reusable Pulumi modules and service templates
- Standardise baseline infrastructure stacks (logging, monitoring, tagging, budgets)
- Reduce drift and copy-paste infra patterns
- Add safety checks and guardrails for faster, safer deployments
Requirements:
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience with backend systems, infrastructure, or developer tooling
- Familiarity with at least one relevant area: CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Buildkite, etc.)
- Familiarity with at least one relevant area: CLI tooling and developer platforms
- Familiarity with at least one relevant area: SaaS/IT systems (SSO, identity, provisioning)
- Familiarity with at least one relevant area: Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Strong problem-solving and systems thinking
- Commitment: ~20 hours per week
- Must be available for 2 × 45-minute syncs weekly
- Scheduled during PST work hours (Monday & Thursday)