Description
Hi, We’re AppFolio.
We’re innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We’re a software company that is customer obsessed and creates products to make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing the way people do business, and we want your ideas, your enthusiasm, and your passion to help us keep on innovating.
We love where we work, and you can, too. Most of our engineers in product development focus on our company’s customers and their needs. Some of us have internal customers as well: other engineers. This is one of those roles you’d be joining an engineering group responsible for crafting a software development experience that your fellow AppFolio engineers will love.
About Our Group
The AppFolio Deployment Platform team designs, improves, and scales deployment tooling using cloud technologies. The platform engineering group helps product development teams with their infrastructure, service-design, architecture and deployment needs so that they can focus on solving customer problems. We deploy hundreds of code commits weekly. We build and manage the primary platform deployment tooling for our product development teams, simplifying and stabilizing the deployment experience, and lead the way to continuous deployment for all our product components.
Who we are looking for:
We are looking for a Sr Software Engineer that is passionate about deployment tooling at scale to join us on our journey to embrace and improve our DORA metric driven deployment process. Our ecosystem is composed of a diverse ecosystem of software including a large monolith deployed to :20k unique instances and a healthy mix of other services written in go, python and Ruby. We support Lambdas, EKS and Containers as target platforms. The candidate will partner with Software Architects and other Software Engineers with broad experience to build this capability at AppFolio scale.
A successful candidate will have a bias for action, a broad understanding of industry tools, CICD, GitOps model and when to use them, and a positive can-do attitude.
Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain the deployment tooling used by all Appfolio engineering teams
• Write and maintain deployment workflows that are both reliable, fault-tolerant and scale
• Leverage agile practices to release small batches of value to customers continuously – test-driven development, pair programming, live code review, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Actively review and mentor code from other engineers in the team and organization. We have a strong collaborative culture built upon transparency
• Continually seek to improve and develop mastery of your domain. This includes seeking and giving feedback on a regular basis
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum scalability, stability, and performance.
• Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from other engineering team members, QA, product owners, and our APM customers.
  

You know you’re the right fit if…

• Experience with modern cloud platforms e.g. AWS/Azure/GCP
• Experience with AWS services e.g. Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB
• Experience with cloud tools and solutions e.g. terraform, cloudformation, IaaC
• Experience with containers and orchestration e.g. docker, kubernetes, helm
• Proficient in Python programming language or other high level programming languages like Ruby, Java or Go
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools e.g. Bazel, GitHub Actions, CircleCI
• Familiarity with GitOps Deployment model and tooling including ArgoCD, FluxCD, Git
• Experience supporting hundreds of deployments per week
• Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards
• You love learning about new technologies but understand the value of using something old if it still does everything you need it to do
• You care about the long-term maintainability of the codebase and will learn to advocate for refactoring and clean-ups where appropriate
• You care about work-life balance and want your company to care about it, too; you'll put in the extra hour when needed but won't let it become a habit
  

Additional Skills and Knowledge:

• Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline preferred
• Hands-on work/internship experience developing web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment
• Creativity, ability to solve complex problems without a roadmap
  

Nice to Have:

• Experience working across all levels of the development stack
• Strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale
• Familiarity with Agile software development processes: Scrum or Kanban
  

Compensation & Benefits
The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is $138,400 - $173,000.
The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.
Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.
Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.
About AppFolio
AppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.
Why AppFolio
Grow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.
Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.
Impact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.
Connect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.
Paddle as One.
Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers
Statement of Equal Opportunity
At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.
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