Senior Cloud Engineer

Overview

As a key member of our Reverse Proxy team, you will dive deep into the core of our platform technology, ensuring it runs seamlessly across a global scale. This role offers the unique opportunity to work on a system that's central to our product, interacting with over a hundred teams to onboard their APIs onto our proxy. Our environment champions agility, ownership, and innovation with a strong emphasis on observability and automation to support our high standards of operation.

Main Responsibilities

* Collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager and a dynamic team following an Agile methodology to enhance our capability continuously.

* Lead the lifecycle of software development from analysis and design to implementation, testing, and support, ensuring high-quality solutions alongside our Quality and Reliability Engineers.

* Apply your expertise to write and modify software and cloud components, conduct unit and integration tests, and maintain documentation for superior supportability.

* Engage in design discussions, contribute to project planning, and provide estimations to drive forward our strategic migration to cloud infrastructure.

* Operate within a remote, distributed team framework, requiring proactive communication and a keen ability to set and manage expectations across time zones.

Required Skills

* You have 5+ years of experience in Software and Cloud Engineering, with a track record of working on complex, high-availability systems.

* Proficient in Python, C, Java or similar languages, with a deep understanding of web technologies (HTTP, TLS, REST APIs, DNS, TCP) and cloud platforms, particularly AWS or Azure.

* Experienced with API tools (e.g., Nginx, Apache, Varnish, Kong), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab), Linux, and Docker.

* A proactive learner, open to diving into new challenges, asking questions, building prototypes, and iterating rapidly.

* Excellent in communication and collaboration in a fully remote setting, capable of working effectively across different time zones.

* You don't need to be an expert in our stack on day one, but you're eager to learn and contribute meaningfully through hands-on implementation and design participation.

Preferred Qualifications

* Versatility in wearing multiple hats within the software engineering spectrum, from development to DevOps and system administration.

* Experience in critical projects with stringent latency and availability requirements.

* Background in large-scale operations, open-source projects, and delivering platform services to a diverse user base.

* Familiarity with Agile methodologies and a strong advocate for the "you build it, you own it" philosophy.

Benefits

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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