Responsibilities:

* Work with engineers on the design, deployment, and continuous performance and scalability improvement.

* Architect, design, develop and maintain key software automation components.

* Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deployment.

* Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance.

Attributes of an ideal candidate:

* Have good analytical skills and learning agility.

* Passion for distributed systems and cloud technology.

* Have the capacity to drill through software and sometimes hardware layers.

* Provide critical thinking and technical innovation.

* Write clean code with attention to reliability, performance, and security.

* Build dialogue and establish trust between teams operating services upstream and downstream.

* Establish customer connections and build insights into their business to feed into design.

* Partner with leadership and architects to define and scope engineering plans

* Operate the service as an owner through telemetry, monitoring, and analytics.

* Release high-quality features on time, meeting functional, performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.

Required qualifications:

* 13+ years of software engineering experience

* Experience working with public cloud computing architecture (ex. AWS, GCP, etc.)

* Strong programming skills in Java, Javascript, C++, or other object-oriented languages are a plus.

* Ability to work cross-functionally to articulate, measure, and solve performance issues

* Hands-on experience with performance measurement, evaluation, and optimization

* Experience with CI/CD and microservice platforms

* Experience with monitoring, alerts, logging, and troubleshooting technical problems

* Experience with distributed caching and load-balancing systems

Preferred qualifications:

* Deep understanding of cloud provider technology stack and implementation insights

* 5+ years of experience operating IaaS and PaaS services on Microsoft Azure or AWS

* Apex / Mulesoft / Java / Python / Javascript

* Knowledge of database/datalake performance fundamentals: SQL, schema, internals

* Experience evaluating and interpreting large volumes of production data using Splunk (or other equivalent tools) to evaluate throughput, latency, memory, and CPU utilization

* Understanding of back-end systems and APIs, developer tools, and compilers

* Knowledge in automated deployment and configuration updates using Docker, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Kubernetes

* Experience building highly scalable web applications.

* Experience with Agile software development and test-driven development

* CLI (Command Line Interface) development

* Ability and desire to work with customers to debug issues on any OS

* Master’s degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent field