Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces and light. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (“ABL”) and the Intelligent Spaces Group (“ISG”), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make the world more brilliant, productive, and connected. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management systems, and location-aware applications.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Developer Portal Team, a core part of our growing Engineering team. You’ll work to extend and maintain a platform built with the newest

technology in the cloud, including React and Go, and hosted on K8s. You’ll join a highly engaged and technical group that is well-versed in building enterprise-ready and extremely secure software

systems, and play a core role in evolving the technical health and capability of Acuity’s software products and services.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

What you’ll be doing:

Building tools and services for improving our internal techniques for wiring up, maintaining, and extending highly reliable software services
Working with the larger Archicture team to help establish architectural standards that will drive the development workflows of the larger Engineering organization
Mentoring, pairing with, and generally supporting the growth and leveling up of members on the team
Working with leadership to identify opportunities fo building new, buying, or leveraging and

contributing back to open-source projects

We Are Looking For Somebody With

A team player mentality who takes pride in their products and enjoys challenging themselves
Experience in an agile way of working
Solid understanding of software architecture principles
Fluency in more than one language, preferably C#, Golang, or Java
Experience deploying or operating software services on public cloud provides (Azure, AWS,GCP)
High personal performance standards with drive and a clear “can do” attitude
Full stack competence - you’re well versed in API design and can make solid contributions to

a frontend codebase

Skills That Are Nice To Have

Confidence working with containers
Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Knowledge of networking concepts
DNS, SSL, load balancing, and general traffic routing and management
Experience with DevOps – DBs, pipelines, monitoring, deployment, etc.
Deep understanding of performance issues in web applications

What You Can Expect From Our Culture

Engineering teams at Acuity Brands are highly distributed and remote work is the norm.
We place emphasis on trust, respect, asynchronous communication, creativity, and valuing

our customer.

Our day-to-day is guided by an agile design methodology, working in close collaboration with

all software engineering teams within Acuity.

Other

What we offer:

Competitive salary and stock options
Features ship to users every single day. We deploy many times daily
Opportunities to attend & host relevant conferences & meetups
Flexible vacation time
Exceptional medical, dental & vision coverage
Monthly stipend to offset expenses related to working from home
Continuous education support and allowance
401k

Our aim is to continuously improve the tools and processes our engineering teams use to develop, deliver, and evolve their software services. With your help, we aim to accomplish this by developing

innovative tools and services which remove common pain points for our engineering teammates, enabling them to focus more time on the business problems that matter to them

We invite you to apply today to join us as We Light the Way to a Brilliant, Productive, and Connected World!

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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