Principal Software Engineer - AWS Cloud

Location: Remote – Canada 

At GoDaddy, the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days), and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or offsites.

Join Our Team

You’ll be part of the team developing an internal company-wide Internal Developer Platform that automates the management of various AWS services and provides GitHub actions for deploying applications.

What you'll get to do…

• Architect and deploy robust, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure solutions using IAC principles.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Work with AWS to optimize performance, cost, and security of our cloud environments.
• Manage resources, monitor usage, and implement best practices.
• Own identified platform issues, research root causes, and implement resolution strategies.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional peers, including Product Managers, Designers, and Technical Writers, to facilitate significant organizational impact.
• Actively contribute to the ideation and planning of future product directions.
• Mentor team members and expand the organization's engineering knowledge.
• Advocate for engineering standards improvement through code reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.

Your experience should include…

• 7+ years of experience in full-stack development.
• Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure with AWS, ECS, and containerization.
• Experience using tools such as Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, and CloudFormation to automate, standardize, and abstract the creation of cloud resources from development teams.
• Strong expertise in Node.js, JavaScript (FE), and ReactJS.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (such as GitHub Actions) and automation processes.
• Capability to effectively debug and troubleshoot complex systems.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills, with a passion for teaching and assisting others in learning.
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset, with a bias for action.
• A continuous learning mindset with a strong sense of creativity.
• Ability to thrive in a self-motivated, fast-paced environment where experimentation and failure are encouraged.

You might also have…

• Familiarity with Elastic Kibana analytics tools.
• Familiarity with Cypress and test-driven development.
• Familiarity with documenting in Markdown.
• Familiarity with AWS CDK.
• Familiarity with TypeScript, CSS.
• Familiarity with Scrum / Agile methodologies

We've got your back...  We offer a range of benefits that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in an employee stock purchase plan, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.   

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to [email protected]. 

GoDaddy doesn’t accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.