Associate Software Engineer (Python + DevOps + K8s)

Acquia is an open source digital experience company. We provide the world's most ambitious brands with technology that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia we believe in the power of community and collaboration - giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.

Headquartered in Boston, we have been named as one of North America’s fastest growing software companies as reported by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine, and have been rated a leader by the analyst community and named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future of the web, and we want you to be a part of it.

Acquia is seeking an Associate Software Engineer who thrives at the intersection of software development, DevOps, and AI. This role is ideal for someone passionate about building intelligent, scalable systems while staying hands-on with infrastructure and automation. As part of our engineering team, you’ll design and develop software systems with agentic AI architectures, work on model context protocols (MCP) and agent-to-agent (A2A) communication, and ensure robust deployment pipelines through DevOps best practices.

As an Associate Software Engineer, you will…

• Designing and developing features that help evolve the technical direction of the Acquia Platform
• Working in a DevOps focused team owning and operating the services you create in accordance with service level objectives you define.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications in Python with a strong focus on backend systems.
• Build, integrate, and maintain intelligent agents using Agentic AI principles.
• Implement and extend Model Context Protocols (MCP) and support A2A protocols between autonomous systems.
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions for AI-powered services and distributed systems.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and incident response for the deployed services.
• Ensure high-quality code through testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including AI research, platform, and product teams.
• Participating in the entire software development lifecycle including development, automated test construction, deployment, and operations.
• maintain an understanding of system functionality and architecture, with a focus on the operational aspects of the service (availability, performance, change management, etc)
• collaborate with your team members to review their work and have your work reviewed in turn.
• work with other teams in developing integrations with other systems.
• participate in Scrum software development lifecycle.
• provide product support to internal stakeholders.

You’ll enjoy this role if you…

• like solving complex challenges for scalable, low latency systems
• enjoy contributing to solutions for a Cloud native environment
• enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders
• have a passion for DevOps and related automation

What you’ll need to be successful…

• 2+ years of professional experience in software engineering, preferably in backend or systems engineering roles.
• Experience writing build automation using object oriented language like Python,
• Are familiar with container based products like kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices including CI/CD, containerization (Docker), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Familiar with tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, and version control systems (Git, SVN).
• Experience setting up and maintaining logging, monitoring and alerting tools/solutions like New Relic, Sumo Logic etc.
• Experience on administration of Linux servers
• B.E./B.Tech in computer science or similar

Extra credit if you…

• have familiarity with Go.
• have basic understanding of AI concepts such as LLMs, prompt engineering, multi-agent systems.
• Understanding of MCP, Agentic AI design patterns or similar AI agent communication models.
• have exposure to agentic AI design patterns or communication models like MCP.
• have understanding of security best practices
• have good communication skills (verbal and written)
• are able to work in a team and be a team player
• have knowledge of Drupal, MySQL, Apache and other open source software

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.