Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Everbridge is hiring a Software Engineer focused on platform modernization to help evolve a critical production system while building the next generation of their technology stack. This role involves modernizing legacy systems, designing new architectures, and collaborating with various teams to enhance operational reliability and reduce technical debt.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement components of the next-generation platform architecture
- Build new services and APIs that gradually replace or extend legacy functionality
- Introduce modern engineering practices, tooling, and infrastructure where appropriate
- Build AI-first experiences
- Maintain and support existing production systems that the business depends on
- Implement targeted improvements and stability fixes while minimizing unnecessary disruption
- Identify areas where modernization efforts can reduce operational risk or technical debt
- Improve observability, documentation, and operational reliability of legacy components
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Participate in architecture discussions around system evolution and modernization strategy
- Collaborate with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver incremental improvements
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and pragmatic engineering
- Use agentic development tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar AI coding agents
Skills
- 7-10+ years in a software engineering role
- Building on a variety of database platforms: MondoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Building scalable microservices
- Experience with CI/CD Pipelines: Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD
- Experience using AI coding assistants such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar tools
- Full-stack development with various programming languages, e.g. Javascript/Typescript, Java, C#, Scala
- Monitoring and observability: Grafana, Datadog, Loki
- Experience working with existing systems or mature codebases, not just greenfield development
- Guiding/mentoring junior engineers
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and system analysis skills
- Familiarity with modern development practices such as: version control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to reason about system design, architecture trade-offs, and technical debt
- Experience with system modernization or platform evolution projects
- Experience integrating legacy applications with modern services or APIs
- Background working in environments transitioning from monoliths to service-oriented architectures
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Parental planning
- Mental health benefits
- Disability income benefits
- Life and AD&D insurance
- A 401(k) plan and match
- Paid time off
- Fitness reimbursements
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