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Software Developer 5 joins the Shepherd team to drive the evolution of a cloud-scale release orchestration platform. This role focuses on building and maintaining a resilient orchestration control plane for safe, reliable deployment of software, infrastructure, and configuration changes across multi-region environments. The developer will design and implement core capabilities such as rollback automation, dependency modeling, and operational workflows while establishing engineering standards for code quality, testing, and observability. Key responsibilities include developing high-availability distributed systems and creating AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in cloud platform architecture and production debugging. Technical requirements include proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript. This role addresses the complex challenge of managing deployment safety and operational efficiency within sovereign, regulated, and large-scale cloud environments using advanced distributed systems and API design.
What does a Software Developer earn?
Median $151475 from 90 postings across 16 companies.
Design and implement Shepherd platform capabilities for release orchestration, deployment safety, and rollback automation.
Build highly available distributed systems that operate reliably across multi-region and cloud-scale environments.
Define long-term architecture including APIs, service boundaries, persistence models, and workflow execution.
Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, observability, and operational readiness.
Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design documents, and production-ready code development.
Develop automation and AI-assisted workflows to improve developer productivity while maintaining security.
Lead complex cross-functional initiatives involving SRE, security, compliance, and infrastructure teams.
What we're looking for
Experience of 6 to 10+ years in the field.
Strong experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production cloud environments.
Deep understanding of cloud platform architecture, orchestration systems, APIs, resiliency, observability, and operational safety.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript.
Experience leading complex cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing architecture across teams.
Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, code quality, design patterns, and maintainability.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted software engineering and engineering automation.
Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or other hyperscale platforms (preferred); deployment orchestration, release automation, or cloud control planes (preferred).
Java
Go
Python
C++
C#
OCI
Distributed Systems
API Development
Containers
CI/CD
GitOps
Service Oriented Architecture
Infrastructure Automation
Site Reliability Engineering
Observability
Policy-as-Code
Identity and Access Management
Workflow Orchestration
Java
Go
Python
C++
C#
OCI
Distributed Systems
API Development
Containers
CI/CD
GitOps
Infrastructure Automation
Service Oriented Architecture
Observability
Identity and Access Management
Policy-as-Code
Workflow Orchestration
Java
Go
Python
C++
C#
OCI
Distributed Systems
API Development
Containers
CI/CD
GitOps
Infrastructure Automation
Service Oriented Architecture
Observability
Identity and Access Management
Policy-as-Code
Workflow Orchestration
Java
Go
Python
C++
C#
OCI
Distributed Systems
API Development
Containers
CI/CD
GitOps
Infrastructure Automation
Service Oriented Architecture
Observability
Identity and Access Management
Policy-as-Code
Workflow Orchestration
Java
Go
Python
C++
C#
OCI
Distributed Systems
API Development
Containers
CI/CD
GitOps
Infrastructure Automation
Service Oriented Architecture
Observability
Policy-as-Code
Identity and Access Management
Workflow Orchestration
Java
Go
Python
C++
C#
OCI
Distributed Systems
API Development
Containers
CI/CD
GitOps
Infrastructure Automation
Service Oriented Architecture
Observability
Identity and Access Management
Policy-as-Code
Workflow Orchestration