Senior Software Engineer

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.