Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Cloud Development Engineer role sits at the infrastructure layer of SaaS, where platform choices directly shape product reliability and customer trust. Working within a core engineering group for a large cloud software provider signals exposure to multi-tenant concerns at meaningful scale—security, compliance, performance, and cost controls are treated as first-class engineering problems rather than afterthoughts.
From a SaaS career perspective, the scope aligns with the skills that remain portable across modern subscription businesses: designing distributed systems, building RESTful microservices, and operationalising cloud-native delivery via Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. The emphasis on observability, fault-tolerance, and automated testing reflects the realities of running always-on services, while the inclusion of event-driven patterns and AI platform familiarity points to where many SaaS platforms are investing engineering effort.
This position is best suited to engineers who prefer systems-level work over feature-only delivery, and who enjoy making architectural trade-offs that balance resilience, velocity, and cloud spend. It also fits professionals who want their impact measured through platform outcomes—service health, scalability headroom, and operational simplicity—within an enterprise SaaS environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About Cloud Software Group:
Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s leading cloud software providers, serving more than 100 million users worldwide. Our solutions empower organizations and individuals to work securely and efficiently from anywhere. We foster a culture of innovation, diversity, and continuous learning, making this an exciting time to be part of our transformation journey.
About the Team:
The Citrix Core Engineering team is a product engineering organization responsible for the design, development, and evolution of foundational cloud software platforms that power the Citrix ecosystem. We build large-scale distributed systems that set the technical backbone for security, reliability, performance, compliance, and cost efficiency across our services. Our engineers work on complex system design problems, core feature development, scalability challenges, and platform modernization initiatives.
Required Experience, Skills & Responsibilities:
4–7 years of professional software development experience with strong proficiency in .NET, C#, or Python.
Proven experience designing and implementing distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS platforms, and microservices-based applications.
Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, system architecture, and SOLID design principles.
Experience developing on major public cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable) as application platforms.
Building enterprise-grade REST APIs and microservices.
Developing and deploying containerized applications using Kubernetes (AKS).
Establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins/TeamCity as part of engineering workflows.
Applying Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and ARM templates to support application delivery.
Designing workloads using serverless and event-driven architectures.
Familiarity with JavaScript/React.js for front-end or full-stack development is a plus.
Hands-on experience with AI platforms and frameworks is a strong plus:
Azure AI Foundry / OpenAI / Responses API
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Agentic AI frameworks: LangGraph, LangFuse, Microsoft Agent Framework (AI Agents, Workflows)
AI Cognitive Search
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
AI Gateway
Build software with observability by design, using tools like Splunk, Grafana, Azure Application Insights, and Log Analytics to drive proactive platform improvements.
Implement automated testing, fault-tolerance patterns, and self-healing mechanisms aligned with Chaos Engineering principles.
Apply secure software design practices to protect platform integrity throughout the development lifecycle.
Use data-driven approaches to optimize scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency at the software-architecture level.
About Us:
Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.
Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.
If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process, please contact us via the Bridge portal for assistance.
