Software Engineer III

About the role

Join Guidewire’s Product Development & Operations (PDO) team in San Mateo, where we are dedicated to delivering operational excellence and transformative innovation for the world’s leading P&C insurers. Our team is at the forefront of building secure, scalable, and efficient cloud platforms, collaborating in a culture that values curiosity, continuous learning, and teamwork. We leverage modern technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, and microservices to drive measurable value and efficiency for our customers.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building and evolving Guidewire’s industry-leading cloud platform as a service, using Kubernetes and AWS as foundational technologies.
• Design, develop, and maintain microservices, components, and tools to automate the lifecycle of highly available, distributed services and applications.
• Engineer for quality, scalability, availability, and security, ensuring robust and reliable code.
• Implement automated testing to protect and validate your products.
• Deploy containerized applications to AWS using CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with skilled engineers, operations, product managers, and architects to deliver impactful solutions and mentor peers.
• Participate in pair programming and agile ceremonies, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.
• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of: Java, Golang, NodeJS, Python, or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of REST API/gRPC for data interchange.
• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture, including service discovery and API gateway concepts.
• Proficiency in Linux debugging and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with IaaS abstractions and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Serverless).
• Commitment to proven software design principles (e.g., SOLID, Hexagonal).
• Methodical approach to distributed tracing, monitoring, and observability.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a collaborative, team-first mindset.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, EKS).
• Familiarity with observability tools and log management in cloud environments.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, agile, and social environment.

What You Should Know About This Role

This position regularly involves pair programming. Learn more about our CCS group's operations.

The general interview process at Guidewire is outlined here.

Our impact: In your first six months, you’ll immerse yourself in our cloud platform, contribute to the design and development of core services, and deliver measurable improvements in scalability, reliability, and automation. Your work will directly support Guidewire’s mission to deliver secure, efficient, and innovative solutions for our customers, while helping to drive the adoption of AI and cloud technologies across the organization.

What’s in it for you

• A flexible work environment (hybrid, with WFH options as applicable)
• Health and wellness benefits
• Paid time off programs, including volunteer time off
• A market-competitive pay and incentive programs
• Continual development and internal career growth opportunities

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process

We provide accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to Accommodations@guidewire.com. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire. As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation. For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Guidewire is committed to an inclusive workplace and believes that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.