Staff Software Engineer
Date: Apr 16, 2025
Location: Dhaka, BD, 1212 BD
Company: Optimizely
At Optimizely, we're on a mission to help people unlock their digital potential. We do that by reinventing how marketing and product teams work to create and optimize digital experiences across all channels. With Optimizely One, our industry-first operating system for marketers, we offer teams flexibility and choice to build their stack their way with our fully SaaS, fully decoupled, and highly composable solution.
We are proud to help more than 10,000 businesses, including H&M, PayPal, Zoom, and Toyota, enrich their customer lifetime value, increase revenue and grow their brands. Our innovation and excellence have earned us numerous recognitions as a leader by industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, reinforcing our role as a trailblazer in MarTech.
At our core, we believe work is about more than just numbers -- it's about the people. Our culture is dynamic and constantly evolving, shaped by every employee, their actions and their stories. With over 1500 Optimizers spread across 12 global locations, our diverse team embodies the "One Optimizely" spirit, emphasizing collaboration and continuous improvement, while fostering a culture where every voice is heard and valued.
Introduction
Who we are:
We are one team with one goal. Optimizely is focused on unlocking digital potential for our customers. We are the recognized category leader by Forrester and Gartner in Digital Experience Platform (DXP) and Feature Management and Experimentation Software. We are recognized as the category creator for A/B Testing and experimentation software. We have incredible customers who are supported by our incredible team members. Optimizely has over 9,000 brands from global organizations such as Visa, Sky, Yamaha, Wall Street Journal to tech innovators like Atlassian, DocuSign, Fitbit, and Zillow. Culture is critical to us, and we are transparent about our vision and principles. We stay bold but stay humble.
Why is this team critical to Optimizely?
- Business Impact: Graph is the core content delivery and search service powering the SaaS version of our Content Management System (CMS). Our customers, who rely on Graph for their websites and mobile applications, demand high performance and advanced query capabilities to deliver exceptional user experiences. Graph's reliability and speed directly impacts their business success.
- High Visibility & Innovation: Our roadmap prioritizes innovative content delivery and search features, placing search and AI at the forefront of our service offering. This focus differentiates us from competitors and empowers our customers to build cutting-edge web and mobile applications. You'll be instrumental in developing these differentiating features.
- Shape the Future of Digital Experiences: The team plays a critical role in shaping the future of our customers' digital presence. Your contributions will directly influence how they engage their audiences and achieve their business objectives through innovative search and content delivery experiences.
Job Responsibilities
We're seeking a skilled Staff Software Engineer to fill a crucial GitOps Engineer role, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our infrastructure and applications. This role centers on implementing and championing GitOps practices, automating deployments, and optimizing our Kubernetes environment. Responsibilities include managing infrastructure as code, fine-tuning Kubernetes pods and autoscaling for optimal resource utilization, and hardening Kubernetes clusters to enhance security and stability.
The engineer will also drive improvements to our continuous deployment pipelines, ensuring safe and efficient releases, and manage our quarterly stable releases. A key function is maintaining our monitoring and observability stack (logs, dashboards, metrics, and alerts) to proactively identify and resolve production issues. This requires deep expertise in IaC, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and monitoring tools.
Strong collaboration with development, operations, and security teams is essential, along with clear documentation of processes and infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver with excellent communication skills and a passion for automation and best practices.
Some technologies we work with:
- Cloudflare workers, Kubernetes
- TypeScript, JavaScript, C#
- GraphQL, REST
- Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
Work Hours: Sunday to Thursday, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Knowledge and Experience
Experience required:
- 3+ years’ experience of developing and managing services in production
- Experience in Kubernetes and Docker
- Expertise with GitOps and Terraform
- Experience partnering closely with internal stakeholders, to gain a strong understanding of business and product data needs
- You find satisfaction in being a force multiplier for your colleagues
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or engineering or related experience required
What sets you apart:
- Experience developing with TypeScript
- Experience working with GraphQL APIs
- Experience with Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
- Experience developing multi-tenant services
- Experience working with go-to-market teams
- Understanding the value of pair programming/TDD/Clean Code
- Exposure/Experience leveraging functional languages / paradigms
Education
Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or engineering preferred) or equivalent work experience
Our culture is the most important thing we offer. We continuously aim to provide a high-growth space, both virtually and in person, where you can do your best work and, in the process, unlock your boundless potential. Our new, cutting-edge office space in Dhaka is a testament to our dedication to enhancing your work experience. This state-of-the-art workspace features open workstations, a fully equipped kitchen, a nap room for relaxation, a tranquil zen garden, and an entertaining area, all designed to provide you with the ideal environment to thrive and grow.
As part of our commitment to you, here are other benefits and perks you can expect:
- Best-in-class compensation plans
- Two annual festival bonuses
- Recognition and rewards programs
- Paid Maternity (4 months) & Paternity Leave (12 weeks)
- Flexible vacations days and working hours
- Annual Work/Service Anniversary Leave
- Comprehensive medical & life insurance for you and your dependants
- Volunteering opportunities to make a difference
- Chance to work alongside our incredible global team
- Monthly and quarterly regional and global team-building events
- Communal transport facilities inside Dhaka to and from the office
- Free catered lunch every day
- An agile performance review process that encourages ongoing transparency between managers and direct reports
- Enablement program and soft skill training to support internal career growth and development
At Optimizely, our standardized language is English, and it is crucial to have good English communication skills to be successful in your global role. All our external and cross-location communication is done in US English (en-us), but internally you can speak in whichever native language you most identify with.
Optimizely is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Optimizely is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.