Associate Software Engineer

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today's threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com

Job summary

Associate Software Engineer responsible for end‑to‑end delivery of backend services (Java or Go). Own requirement refinement with product, design scalable systems, implement high‑quality code, automated tests, deployment, observability, and documentation following industry best practices.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product to clarify and refine requirements
• Design system architecture, data models, APIs, and integration points
• Implement services in Java or Go with clean, maintainable code
• Apply DS/Algo and problem‑solving for performance and scalability
• Write automated unit/integration tests and maintain CI pipelines
• Perform code reviews and enforce engineering standards
• Deploy and operate services (containers/Kubernetes)
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize using tools (New Relic, Splunk, etc.)
• Handle edge/corner cases, error budgets, resiliency and security considerations
• Produce technical docs (designs, runbooks)

What you will have

• 1+ years backend engineering (Java or Go)
• Strong data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems knowledge
• Proven system design experience (scalability, reliability, APIs)
• Experience with relational databases, caching, messaging (Kafka)
• CI/CD, automated testing (unit, integration), version control (Git)
• Observability: logging, metrics, tracing (e.g., New Relic, Splunk)
• Secure coding, performance tuning, and best practices mindset
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, service meshes
• Effective communication and cross‑functional collaboration skills

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and infrastructure as code
• Event‑driven architecture and streaming patterns
• Experience with feature flags, blue/green or canary deployments
• Open-source contributions or technical blogging

Benefits

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and infrastructure as code
• Event‑driven architecture and streaming patterns
• Experience with feature flags, blue/green or canary deployments
• Open-source contributions or technical blogging