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Principal Software Engineer - Location Negotiable - Remote

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Accenture

3.7

Multiple Locations

Why you should apply for a job to Accenture:

  • Ranked as one of the Best Consulting Companies for Women in 2022

  • 71% say women are treated fairly and equally to men

  • 73% would recommend this company to other women

  • 77% say the CEO supports gender diversity

  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Accenture offers you and your family fertility benefits, support for adoption and surrogacy, and caregiver concierge services.

  • Accenture offers 16 weeks paid maternity leave, 8 weeks paid time off for primary caregivers & 2 weeks for secondary caregivers.

  • Accenture offers flexible work arrangements to help employees achieve work/life balance while also meeting Accenture’s business needs.

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    Position summary

    We are a global collective of innovators applying the New every day to improve the way the world works and lives. Help us show the world what’s possible as you partner with clients to unlock hidden value and deliver innovative solutions. Empowered with innovative tools, continuous learning and a global community of diverse talent and perspectives, we drive success in a new business architecture that disrupts conventional practices. Our expertise spans 40+ industries across 120+ countries and impacts millions of lives every day. We turn ideas into reality.

    We Are

    Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle. 

    We are currently looking for professionals for our Managed Detection & Response practice with extensive experience in the following:

    Job Description for  Principal Software Engineer 

    You will be solving deep technical problems and building creative solutions in a dynamic environment leading knowledgeable and passionate SDE's. You are experienced building for the cloud – designing for five 9s, globally distributed all-active deployments, horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and more. You are motivated by learning, evaluating, and deploying new technologies. Our services are deployed in an Amazon Web Services environment, and so you will working hands on with many AWS components. You thrive in true-agile, highly paced, production facing environment. You have a low tolerance for mediocrity. You love to write code and build extraordinary things.

    We are looking for coders, people who love to code, just like we do! You should be energetic, confident, and ready to contribute in many areas of the software development lifecycle. You may be involved in all the aspects from research, design, specs, coding, and bug fixing. Our team focus is on writing dependable code and getting high quality products and services to market as quick as possible.

    Basic Qualifications:  

    • Minimum 5 years of experience building AWS cloud native services using EC2, S3, ECS, SQS, API Gateway, Lambda, etc.
    • Minimum 4 years of experience with infrastructure as code IAC and using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef.
    • Minimum 4 years of experience with CICD pipelines (i.e. Jenkins) with building and/or configuring pipelines for build and deployment of software.
    • Minimum 5 years coding knowledge and experience with C# .NET and/or java and object oriented methodologies
    • Minimum 3 years coding knowledge and experience with SQL Server
    • Minimum of 2 years experience of writing scripts in Python, PowerShell or Bash
    • Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical knowledge
    • Experience in building highly-available (HA) production-grade solutions in AWS.
    • Experience with security compliance programs such as ISO, PCI, SOC 1 & 2, is strongly preferred
    • Successfully developed for large scale distributed systems and reliable, fault tolerant software.
    • Understanding of and hands-on experience with the principles of designing and building production quality REST APIs.
    • Practical experience with Linux/Unix system administration, monitoring tools and troubleshooting.
    • CICV, CICD, Automation (Terraform a plus)
    • Experience designing/implementing high performance Web services using SOA/REST/Microservices
    • Experience in the design/build/maintenance/refactor of large scale low latency high performance systems
    • Ability to quickly learn and develop expertise in existing highly complex applications and architectures
    • Extensive knowledge with high volume distributed application development in cloud environment
    • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, particularly in both production and non-production environments.
    • Experience using Agile methodologies, TDD, Code review, clear and concise documentation

    Professional Skill Requirements: 

    • Strong analytic, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
    • Uncommon ability and motivation to tackle problems and learn fast
    • Ability to perform at a high level within a technical team
    • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
    • Excellent communication and relationship skills
    • Distributed teamwork

    Compensation for roles at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York City or Washington as set forth below and information on benefits offered is here.   

    Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role 

    California:  $78,500 - $220,400

    Colorado: $78,500 - $190,400

    New York City: $90,900 - $220,400

    Washington: $83,600 - $202,700

    For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.   

    Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts.

    What We Believe

    We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.

    Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here

    Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

    Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.

    All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

    Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

    For details, view a copy of the Accenture Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy Statement.

    Requesting An Accommodation

    Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.

    If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at 1 (877) 889-9009, send us an email or speak with your recruiter.

    Other Employment Statements

    Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

    Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

    Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

    The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information.

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    About the company

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    Industry: Consulting Services

    Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection ...

    Why you should apply for a job to Accenture:

  • Ranked as one of the Best Consulting Companies for Women in 2022

  • 71% say women are treated fairly and equally to men

  • 73% would recommend this company to other women

  • 77% say the CEO supports gender diversity

  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Accenture offers you and your family fertility benefits, support for adoption and surrogacy, and caregiver concierge services.

  • Accenture offers 16 weeks paid maternity leave, 8 weeks paid time off for primary caregivers & 2 weeks for secondary caregivers.

  • Accenture offers flexible work arrangements to help employees achieve work/life balance while also meeting Accenture’s business needs.

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