Software Engineer III - Cloud Platform

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do. We never stop learning, challenging the norm, and pushing for better while celebrating the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get real flexibility, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together.

About The Team

UKG is looking for a Senior Software Engineer III – Eng to build and maintain our public/private cloud’s PaaS layer (Platform as a Service). This is a specialized team that abstracts the complexities of Infrastructure, Networking, and Security requirements to ensure they are consumed in standardized ways for supporting Applications. These services are built in Linux leveraging various technologies including Go, Ansible, K8s, GKE, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Openstack. This position will partner with our Agile development teams to assure smooth integration and deployment of UKG software across the entire cloud infrastructure. This work is in the Engineering Acceleration group supporting internal product teams in their deployments. The right software engineer background and experience will be with cloud technologies and a desire to master them.

About The Role

• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for various software applications and systems.
• Dev Ops Model: Work in a DevOps model, taking ownership from requirements gathering with product management to design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software in production.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools.
• Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex software applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance. Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code and infrastructure scripts using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Code Review: Review code developed by other developers, provide feedback, and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code adheres to industry-standard best practices such as coding guidelines, elegant, efficient, and maintainable code, with observability and unit tests built from the ground up.
• Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using tools (e.g., Junit, Selenium), and leverage design patterns following the test automation pyramid as a guide.
• Service Health and Quality: Maintain total lifecycle management of all services provided. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for actionable insights, provide recommendations to optimize performance, conduct thorough root cause analysis, and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.
• Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements, or fixes to the product, and contribute to training materials.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4 years of experience with at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Golang, Ruby, Python, C++.
• 1+ year of GitOps/DevOps experience or building Infrastructure as Code pipelines or processes to support large teams.
• Experience working with Kubernetes, Docker, and public cloud deployment platforms.
• Experience designing and administering CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale, complex software projects.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, GCP, and version control systems like GitHub.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience and deep understanding of GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or similar GitOps and CI/CD platforms for Kubernetes application deployment, release orchestration, traffic routing, and lifecycle management, or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master.
• Extensive experience with GitOps tooling, for example GitHub Actions, leveraging Terraform and Ansible to create CI/CD pipeline automation frameworks and container-based deployments.
• Extensive experience with software architecture and design patterns, including the ability to design and implement scalable, reliable systems in a DevOps model.
• Proficiency in building telemetry or observability as part of the development process.
• Strong understanding of DNS architecture and operations, including traffic management, split-horizon DNS, failover strategies, and performance optimization in large-scale distributed systems, or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master.
• Proven experience designing and operating service-to-service routing, including L7 traffic shaping, canary deployments, blue/green releases, and zero-downtime migration strategies, or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master.
• Experience with API gateway and edge routing technologies (e.g., NGINX, Envoy, Kong, or cloud-native equivalents), including authentication, rate limiting, and policy enforcement, or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master.
• Hands-on experience with TLS/mTLS, certificate lifecycle management, and secure service-to-service communication in a Kubernetes or microservices environment, or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes operators, networking primitives, including Services, Ingress, Gateway API, and service mesh architectures (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), with hands-on experience operating them at scale, or a readiness and deep interest to learn and master.

Company Overview

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $102,300 to $147,050. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation.

Benefits

Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits.