Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers worldwide. This role is fully remote for candidates who reside outside the 30 mile radius of one of our offices. For candidates who reside within a 30 mile radius of one of our offices, this role is Hybrid and would require 3 days a week (T, W, TH) in office.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly audit and refactor existing internal tools and services to strictly comply with 12-factor application principles - configuration via environment, stateless processes, explicit dependency declarations, disposability, and dev/prod parity.
• Own end-to-end delivery of modernized services: back-end APIs (Go/Python) paired with clean, functional front-end interfaces (React or Vue) that surface platform data and controls to internal users.
• Decompose monolithic or ad-hoc scripts into properly structured, independently deployable services with clearly defined interfaces.
• Full-Stack Development: Build and maintain internal web UIs using modern front-end frameworks (React or Vue) - dashboards, tooling consoles, and operational interfaces that teams actually want to use. Design and develop robust REST/gRPC back-end APIs in Go and Python following clean architecture patterns. Ensure front-end and back-end components are instrumented end-to-end with traces, metrics, and structured logs from day one.
• Observability & Telemetry: Own the platform observability stack: design, implement, and continuously improve our Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki deployment for all internal services. Define and enforce instrumentation standards - every new or refactored service must ship with meaningful RED metrics, structured JSON logs forwarded to Loki, and distributed traces. Build and maintain Grafana dashboards and alerting rules that provide actionable signal for on-call engineers; define and manage SLIs/SLOs across critical platform services. Implement Prometheus exporters for custom internal services and integrate alerting with PagerDuty or equivalent. Drive log aggregation strategy with Loki - label taxonomy, retention policies, and LogQL query libraries for common operational queries.
• Architecture & API Development: Design, develop, and support robust APIs and automation services from scratch using Go and Python. Conduct architecture reviews and enforce design standards across the platform engineering team. Drive the modernization of legacy platform components with a bias toward simplicity and operational transparency.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Champion modern 12-factor application design, transition legacy pipelines into Kubernetes-native GitOps workflows, and mentor mid-tier developers - all while keeping shipping velocity high. Mentor mid-tier developers, establish coding standards, enforce peer reviews, and reduce technical debt. Improve engineering maturity across the team - instill a culture of instrumentation-first development where observability is never an afterthought. Maintain and overhaul technical documentation; make it easy for new engineers to onboard and contribute.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive enterprise-grade infrastructure automation and orchestration using Ansible, AWX, and Terraform. Oversee the secure and highly available architecture of core lifecycle services such as Harbor and GitLab.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with proven technical leadership and architectural design experience.
• Full-Stack Development: Strong front-end skills (React or Vue) alongside deep back-end experience - you are comfortable owning the full request lifecycle from UI click to database.
• Observability Expertise: Deep, hands-on expertise with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki - not just deploying them, but designing dashboards, writing PromQL/LogQL, building exporters, and enforcing instrumentation standards across a team.
• 12-Factor Mastery: Demonstrated experience auditing and refactoring real applications to be 12-factor compliant in a production environment.
• Programming: Deep expertise in Python and Go (Golang) for building distributed systems and enterprise APIs.
• Kubernetes Certification: CKA or CKAD strictly required (CNCF).
• Hands-on experience with on-premise clusters, preferably Rancher.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Strong experience with OpenStack, private cloud environments, and foundational infrastructure networking.
• Automation & Tooling: Extensive experience with Ansible, AWX/Tower, Harbor, and GitLab.
• Modern Delivery: Proven expertise in SDLC practices, code refactoring, automated testing, and GitOps (ArgoCD).