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About Liferay Liferay is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,000+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges. Liferay’s all-in-one platform unites Liferay DXP with our cloud platform capabilities, built-in analytics, and commerce functionality, reducing time to market and accelerating innovation. Our customer roster includes global companies such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins. But we don’t just make awesome software, we are also fueled by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we make it possible for people to reach their full potential to serve others. This commitment extends beyond our product; Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. Oh, we’re also self-funded which gives us the freedom to work on whatever we think brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run! About You And This Role Are you passionate about building and scaling cloud-native enterprise platforms? As a Senior Software Engineer on our Cloud team in Recife, you will help design, implement, and operate core platform tools and cloud infrastructure that power Liferay Cloud globally. You bring a solid working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, container technologies and distributed backend architectures, handling complex engineering challenges independently under minimal supervision. You thrive in a highly collaborative global environment and take initiative to drive reliable, scalable solutions. Key Objectives Independently design, build, and maintain robust, scalable software and platform infrastructure for Liferay Cloud, operating under minimal supervision Own production reliability: lead incident response, monitor SLOs/SLIs, and drive blameless postmortems through to completed action items Analyze and resolve complex architectural, performance, and automation issues, referring only the most complex systemic problems to higher leadership Proactively identify opportunities to improve CI/CD pipelines, system reliability, and overall developer experience across cloud environments. Embed security into the platform: secrets management, least-privilege IAM, container image scanning, and supply-chain integrity Conduct thorough code reviews and mentor mid-level and associate engineers.Suggest improvements and be humble enough to accept suggestions. Everyone learns from everyone, no matter how brilliant you are. Work closely with Design and Product Managers to implement the shared vision. Required Qualifications +Strong experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering, including software engineering fundamentals: version control, automated testing, code review. Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes and containers (Docker/OCI): deployment, scaling, troubleshooting, and resource management. Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience. Understand and share the values of agile development. Write high quality code on at least one of the following languages:, Javascript, Go, with the ability to write and maintain production-quality code Proficient with Git (or any other DVCS) and related branching patterns. Experience with a major public cloud (AWS and Azure preferred, GCP considered) and with infrastructure as code Solid Linux fundamentals, networking, and databases You have strong learning skills; if you don’t know something, you’re willing (and capable) of learning it. Fully comfortable working in English and Portuguese, both written and spoken. Some of your teammates will be in the Americas, Asia or Europe. Good communication skills. You can clearly explain complex technical subjects to other people. Preferred Qualifications Previous experience working on a DXP platform or Liferay Portal 7.0+ Experience operating a multi-tenant platform: tenant isolation, capacity planning, noisy-neighbor mitigation Experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux) and progressive delivery Experience with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry Experience with API infrastructure and gateway/service mesh technologies Cloud cost optimization / FinOps experience It's a big plus if you're a contributor to open source, hackathons, meetups or whatever-related to coding. Experience with managed Kubernetes services: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Certifications such as: CKA, CKAD, or CKS HashiCorp Terraform Associate Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, or Network Engineer What We Offer Salary package w/ competitive benefits according to qualifications and experience Opportunities to take responsibility, grow professionally, and Stay Nerdy A positive and collaborative work culture Working at a leading open-source company Equal Opportunities Employer - Statement Liferay is committed to the equal treatment of all candidates, customers and employees and to fostering a culture of dignity at work. Our operating procedure provides for equal opportunities in recruitment and employment with the aim to eliminate discrimination against any job applicant or employee on the basis of race, age, sexual orientation, gender, religion or beliefs, marital or civil partnerships status, family or dependency status, disability, pregnancy and maternity or membership of a traveling community.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.