Lead Software Engineer

Job responsibilities

• Coordinates and manages the release process, ensuring that all release activities are executed smoothly and on schedule.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to plan, schedule, and control software releases, ensuring alignment with business goals and timelines.
• Oversees the deployment of new releases, ensuring that all changes are thoroughly tested and validated before going live.
• Leads initiatives to improve the release tooling by automating the manual steps.
• Lead initiatives to automate the prod tooling to help improve prod monitoring and help reduce toil.
• Acts as the main point of contact during major incidents for applications, demonstrating the skills to identify the problem area quickly and engage right stakeholders.
• Liaises issues effectively and deep dives into problems to help identify root causes and solutions where possible

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on SRE concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple releases simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Ability to collaborate across various levels and stakeholder groups.
• Expertise in site reliability practices, including reliability, scalability, and security.
• Proficiency in programming languages, especially Python & Java
• Skilled in continuous integration and delivery tools like Jenkins and Terraform

• Knowledge of software applications and technical processes with depth in AWS, Kubernetes, and Data Engineering technologies like Spark, Python.
• Familiar with container and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• Familiar with Apache Iceberg and its integration with data engineering pipelines.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on root cause analysis.