Riverbed, the leader in AI observability, helps organizations optimize their user’s experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed’s open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improves IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we are empowering next-generation digital experiences.

Position

Position: Developer Tools Engineer

Location: Champaign, IL

The Engineering Operations team at Riverbed is a skilled team of developers who work with other teams to improve engineering productivity. Our team has a high standard for repeatability, reliability, and robustness in the tools and services that we deploy and maintain. Our objective is to streamline engineering’s operational practices and drive continuous improvements in quality, reliability, and efficiency. You’ll be working with collaborative, motivated, professional engineers who are intent on getting the right result, utilizing cutting-edge methodologies to create new tools and enhance existing ones. We are looking for passionate, out-of-the-box thinkers who want to take pride in building, releasing, and supporting cloud and on-premise applications and appliances.

What you will do

• Develop automation to reduce/remove manual operations (Python, Java, bash, ssh, Linux, git)
• Improve robustness by adding metrics, monitoring, and automatic recovery (Icinga, DataDog, PagerDuty)
• Rotate with other team members as first point-of-contact for helping others with tools and services (Jira, Confluence)
• Add functionality to CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo, Jenkins, Bitbucket)
• Work with the team using agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban)
• Maintain/update deployments in cloud environments (Ansible, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, Kubernetes)

What makes you an ideal candidate

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems and computer networking
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams
• Experience writing code in an Object-Oriented programming paradigm
• You are a good programmer that writes readable, testable, and maintainable code
• Strong Linux skills and have hands on experience to troubleshoot issues
• Strong and clear communicator that can concisely explain complex software design considerations
• Team player with a good sense of humor
• Willing to learn new technologies and skills as necessary

Apply here: https://go.illinois.edu/developertoolsengineer-FulltimeRiverbed