Software Developer, DevEx – Stateful Systems

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. Build internal tooling, services, and APIs for safely provisioning, changing, migrating, and troubleshooting databases, topics, and caches .

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeRemote • United Kingdom, Canada, North MacedoniaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining internal tooling, services, and APIs, with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and observability in production environments. Proficient in managing infrastructure as code and improving CI/CD pipelines while ensuring best practices in security and system performance.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Production-Quality Software DevelopmentInfrastructure Management With TerraformCI/CD Pipeline Improvement With GitHub ActionsRelational Database ManagementIncident Response And Blameless Postmortems

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Hard Skills

PythonGoJavaAPI DevelopmentSchema DesignORM UsageDatabase TroubleshootingAWSTerraformCI/CD

Soft Skills

CuriosityProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

GitHub ActionsTerraformAWS RDSGenerative AI

Industry Keywords

Production SystemsObservabilityAutomationOn-Call RotationBlameless Postmortems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSJavaPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build internal tooling, services, and APIs for safely provisioning, changing, migrating, and troubleshooting databases, topics, and caches
Replace manual operational work with automation for upgrades, migrations, access requests, backups, and restores
Operate and harden production data stores and participate in the team’s on-call rotation
Partner with product engineering teams on schema design, migrations, query performance, and ORM usage
Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform
Improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Improve observability across stateful systems by instrumenting services and building actionable alerts
Use generative AI to build and maintain internal services, including agentic services
Champion reliability, safe change, security, and platform adoption best practices
Provide tooling and expertise enabling teams to run their own systems under Slice’s “you build it, you run it” model

Requirements

What you’ll need

Production-quality software development in a general-purpose language such as Python, Go, or Java
Experience building services and APIs
Experience testing shipped software and participating in code reviews
Experience running a relational database in production
Experience designing schemas and shipping migrations on a busy database
Experience troubleshooting slow queries from the ORM to the query plan and adding indexes
Understanding of retries, idempotency, consistency trade-offs, and system failure modes
Solid AWS experience, including IAM, RDS, and networking basics
Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform
Experience building and maintaining delivery pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions
Experience instrumenting systems and writing actionable alerts
Experience being on call for production systems
Experience with incident response and blameless postmortems
Experience building internal tooling for other engineers, including CLIs, APIs, and automation
Ability to think in reusable systems rather than one-off fixes
Curiosity to develop deep knowledge of data infrastructure

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal Opportunity Employer
Diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives embraced
Remote work basis for applicants across the UK, Canada, and North Macedonia