Systems Engineer I Job Listing at Qualtrics in Krakow (Job ID 6258395)

Description

At Qualtrics, we create software the world's best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.

When you join one of our teams, you'll be part of a nimble group that's empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won't have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they'll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we're on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 6,000 people across the globe who think that's work worth doing.

Systems Engineer I- Platform Infrastructure KRK

Why We Have This Role

As an engineer working on the Platform Infrastructure team, you will work closely with engineers in multiple disciplines across the company, as well as security, compliance, and operations. You will be heavily involved in the design and implementation of infrastructure and tooling that enables every engineer at Qualtrics. You will be responsible for ensuring that our high-throughput services are able to scale to the demands of the company. You will be responsible for upholding operational excellence, making sure our critical infrastructure is running smoothly and efficiently.

How You'll Find Success

• Knowledge in Linux systems and experience in working with a variety of open source tooling/technologies.
• Establishing productive working relationships with other platform teams, AWS counterparts, security, and compliance teams
• Designing with an eye towards scalability, both in technical measures and organizational processes
• Possessing a customer-obsessed attitude when working with application teams within the company

As a Systems Engineer I at Qualtrics, you should love building simple solutions to solve hard scalability problems. Designing systems in an agile environment to withstand hyper growth and owning quality from end to end is a rewarding challenge and one of the reasons Qualtrics is such an exciting place to work.

You will be expected to gain a deep understanding of how applications are run at Qualtrics, ushering the company into the new world of Kubernetes/EKS, and modernizing how applications perform discovery and encryption using a service mesh

Things You'll Do

• Influence the way that engineers at Qualtrics running applications through best-in-class tooling, and services
• You will create, deploy, and operate services that ensure our overall platform exceeds goals for availability, scalability, and performance
• You will help define how Qualtrics engineers operate containerized workloads
• Participate in periodic on-call responsibilities as part of a global team

What We're Looking For On Your Resume

• 1+ years of relevant experience
• Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn
• Strong algorithms, data structures and coding background
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Experience with professional software engineering practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documents)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field of studies
• Programming experience in at least one languages such as: Python, Go or Java
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues, navigate through unfamiliar code, and quickly learn new technologies
• Strong experience with the Linux operating system and its administration
• Understanding of containerization and container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with great attention to detail
• Strong communication skills, ability to work in a team, and collaborate effectively across various teams

Nice to Have:

• Good understanding of web technologies & protocols e.g. TCP/IP and HTTP
• Experience in high-level languages like Go and scripting languages like Bash
• Experience with Service Mesh and Service Discovery technologies like DNS, Consul, Cilium, Envoy, etc.

What You Should Know About This Team

• We work closely with AWS, aligning with our AWS TAMs to understand their internal roadmap of enterprise-focused container orchestration features.
• We work at tremendous scale; our services must scale to support the entire landscape of Qualtrics engineering. Thousands of hosts in regions across the globe.
• This team sits alongside all of the other internal platforms, infrastructure, and developer experience teams that power Qualtrics. We hold a high bar across these teams and foster a culture of transparent discussion and rigorous design reviews.

Our Team's Favourite Perks and Benefits

• Annual Leave: 20 or 26 annual leave days per annum plus an additional day for each year of service (to a max of 5).
• Private Medical Insurance - Luxmed health & dental cover for you and your dependants.
• Commuter Assistance - Up to the value of 80 PLN net a month for public transport.
• Savings Plan - Two company saving plans provided by Nationale Nederlanden: Employee Capital Plan (PPK) & Employee Saving Plan (PPO)
• QED PROGRAM - Qualtrics Engineer Development (QED) program: support, engineering learning activities up to 10% of engineering work time each quarter.
• Wellness - Up to the value of 800PLN gross per quarter can be reimbursed for a variety of wellness activities via our dedicated platform Forma.
• A choice of Multispot cards available.
• Our employee assistance program with Unum provides counselling and wellbeing support to all employees
• Experience bonus - 7000 PLN gross per annum. Qualtrics experience bonus is a program designed to provide experiences to our employees they might not otherwise have.
• Group Life & Income Protection Insurance
• Glasses/Contact lenses Reimbursement
• Free breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and drinks for everyone in the office
• Tax-deductible expenses (up to 75% depending on role)

The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.

Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

​​Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws: Family & Medical Leave Act, Equal Opportunity Employment, Employee Polygraph Protection Act

Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.

Qualtrics Work Experience - As we look to the future, we believe that our teams are better together. Being together will help us learn more, grow faster and ultimately deliver better results for our customers and Qualtrics. Roles tied to an office location work 4 days per week in the office together and 1 day from home, with a strong spirit of flexibility around taking time for personal, health, and family moments in our work weeks. Our managers work with their teams to create a collaborative, engaged work environment, and arrangement that works for each of our team members.

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