Software Engineer

Job Description

Are you an engineer who enjoys working across diverse technologies and open-source platforms? Do you have experience operating and optimizing service mesh solutions? Are you passionate about tuning systems for high performance?

Join Maersk’s Platform Engineering team as a Software Engineer for our Service Mesh Platform built on open-source technologies.

In this role, you’ll help design, build, and maintain a scalable, robust service mesh platform using cloud-native tools like Kubernetes, Docker and infrastructure-as-code. Your work will enable product teams across Maersk to integrate and scale their applications efficiently and securely. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a high-impact platform at a critical time, solving complex integration challenges and helping shape the future of global trade.

Key Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer, you’ll help deliver a core platform product that directly supports business-facing product teams. You'll work in a dynamic environment with a strong focus on automation, performance, and reliability.

You will:

• Design, build, test and maintain the Service Mesh Platform with a focus on automation.
• Build and manage cloud deployments across multiple environments using infrastructure-as-code.
• Drive performance, scalability and security through continuous deployment, monitoring, logging and alerting throughout the platform lifecycle.
• Operate the platform by defining health metrics, building remediation steps, and ensuring incident readiness.
• Participate in on-call rotations with product teams and lead efforts to prevent incidents through automation and blameless postmortems.
• Continuously explore and implement new technologies to keep the platform up-to-date.
• Support developers in integrating applications quickly and securely into production using the service mesh platform.

Experience & Skills

• 4–7 years of experience in Software Engineering or DevOps roles.
• Experience in Service Mesh technologies like Istio, Kuma or similar.
• Practical knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and cloud-native development.
• Solid experience in Linux environments.
• Proven track record with cloud platforms (public or private).
• Experience with Go or Python is preferred.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Chef, or Puppet.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana etc.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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