As a Lead Cloud Software Engineer, you will develop applications for the Enterprise platform, focusing on automation, migration, and operational efficiency for internal teams.
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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The Impact of a Lead Cloud Software Engineer at Coupa:
As a Lead Software Engineer Cloud, you will play a crucial role in the development of solutions for our Enterprise platform. You will be developing applications that provide self-service and increased efficiency to a diverse group of internal customers across Cloud Operations, Engineering, Customer Success & Support, and Customer Value Management. When you are successful you will significantly accelerate the ability of our teams to better serve our customers.
What You'll Do:
- Building automation to create container technologies and migrate microservices from ECS & Kubernetes to our golden platform (EKS/AKS)
- Help us migrate our monolithic Ruby on Rails application to a containerized infrastructure built on EKS/AKS
- Participating in design/evaluation of new tools, techniques, and technologies
- Helping Manage CALM Pipeline and Kubernetes POD’s.
- Contributing to & building the architecture of our Cloud platform and its delivery.
- Developing tools and software applications using Terraform, YAML, JavaScript, Ruby, PowerShell, Bash to grow our operational stack to the next level.
- Lead AWS Platform Designs for Applications working with Cloud Architecture and Application Architecture Groups.
- Operationalization of Services Hosted on our AWS Platform using new Relic etc.
- Support API Gateway and other relevant technologies from Infrastructure.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- 8+ years of professional technical experience
- 4+ years of experience with scripting/programming using Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, or equivalent
- Experience with building organizationally-scalable CI/CD pipelines in tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline infrastructure at scale for tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent
- Experience building developer-centric shared services platforms.
- Experience with API GW.
- Experience onboarding development teams to Docker, kubernetes, and/or CI/CD
- Experience in Cloud Hosting with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud or equivalent
- Experience with configuration management tools like Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent
- Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, AKS, or equivalent
- Experience with AWS Controllers for Kubernetes, Cross plane, or equivalent
- Experience with source control using Git with a solid foundation of branch strategies
- Experience deploying and operating immutable infrastructure
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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Top Skills
Aks
AWS
Azure
Bash
Docker
Ecs
Eks
Git
Github Actions
Gitlab Ci
GCP
Java
JavaScript
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Powershell
Python
Ruby
Terraform
Yaml
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