Software Engineer

Everbridge is hiring a Software Engineer focused on platform modernization to help evolve a critical production system while building the next generation of our technology stack. This role involves careful modernization of legacy systems, ensuring reliability while introducing modern services and infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement components of the next-generation platform architecture
• Build new services and APIs that gradually replace or extend legacy functionality
• Introduce modern engineering practices, tooling, and infrastructure where appropriate
• Build AI-first experiences
• Maintain and support existing production systems that the business depends on
• Implement targeted improvements and stability fixes while minimizing unnecessary disruption
• Identify areas where modernization efforts can reduce operational risk or technical debt
• Improve observability, documentation, and operational reliability of legacy components
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Participate in architecture discussions around system evolution and modernization strategy
• Collaborate with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver incremental improvements
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and pragmatic engineering
• Use agentic development tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar AI coding agents

Requirements:

• 7-10+ years in a software engineering role
• Building on a variety of database platforms: MondoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Building scalable microservices
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines: Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD
• Experience using AI coding assistants such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar tools
• Full-stack development with various programming languages, e.g. Javascript/Typescript, Java, C#, Scala
• Monitoring and observability: Grafana, Datadog, Loki
• Experience working with existing systems or mature codebases, not just greenfield development
• Guiding/mentoring junior engineers
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and system analysis skills
• Familiarity with modern development practices such as: version control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to reason about system design, architecture trade-offs, and technical debt
• Experience with system modernization or platform evolution projects
• Experience integrating legacy applications with modern services or APIs
• Background working in environments transitioning from monoliths to service-oriented architectures