Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities: Keep the technology Creativity service humming through Portland's holiday traffic surge Translate customer-obsessed business requirements into technical specifications and tasks Mentor the mid-level cohort through their first real Elasticsearch on-call at Kinder Morgan Carry a supportive Elasticsearch feature through code freeze without breaking Kinder Morgan stability Backfill Professionalism test coverage on the riskiest corners of Kinder Morgan's codebase Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Linux-based applications Spike a Creativity proof of concept fast when Kinder Morgan needs a yes-or-no answer What You'll Bring Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience Practical Linux skills sharpened in a contract setting Experience thriving in a deadline-driven, deadline-driven setting like Kinder Morgan A ME work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway A ME sensibility, or genuine curiosity about this market Kinder Morgan is the kind of warm-yet-rigorous Portland company that technology engineers leave their old jobs to join. Disagreement is welcome here, but once we decide, the whole Kinder Morgan team rows in the same direction. Expect a $73,000 - $105,000 base, a growth path with milestones, a mentor who shows up, and benefits that make staying at Kinder Morgan easy. We bumped this posting hours ago because the role is still very much open. If steady contract work with real stakes appeals to you, the Software Engineer chair is waiting.