Senior Software Engineer

Description

Senior software engineering role covering a product component from requirements and design through build, testing and upkeep.

The work centres on the components and applications that make up a product, and on how they connect to the business and technical needs behind them.

Responsibilities

• Compare customer and business expectations with the current product and solutions to find gaps and needed changes; for agile work, do this for each iteration.
• Sort requirements into their applicable types.
• Spot likely solution risks during requirements gathering, alert the relevant stakeholders and recommend corrective steps.
• Help write user stories for components, applications and complex features in agile work.
• Help design solutions so that processes and applications work together for specific product modules.
• Weigh trade-offs in component design against business requirements.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs with mock screens, pseudo code and functional logic for specific modules.
• Build and configure lean code for whole components or applications that meets business, technical and non-functional requirements, including maintainability, availability and scalability.
• Help select languages, development standards and tools for coding and configuration.
• Independently learn the basics of coding languages and frameworks that will be useful later.
• Write scripts that automate repetitive and routine work in CI/CD, testing or other processes where applicable.
• Add telemetry features independently where needed.
• Make sure security policy requirements are applied during code development and configuration.
• Translate customer requirements into test objectives.
• Identify and write test cases for components and modules, run them, and log errors and defects across the whole component.
• Run different types of testing with suitable tools for the testing need.
• Track and analyze defects for components and modules, and run regression tests after every code change.
• Review defects from past projects and solutions to prevent similar ones from recurring.
• Troubleshoot performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Carry out complex maintenance on applications independently.
• Monitor and assess application performance through relevant metrics.
• Perform corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance, and re-engineering work.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance records and performance data, and report your findings.
• Assess change requests to determine which are valid and feasible.
• Keep the project on approved milestones and timelines.

Requirements

• A Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, information technology, electronic engineering, electrical engineering or a related field, plus 1 year of software engineering or related experience; or a Bachelor's degree in one of those fields plus 3 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Experience designing and building enterprise-scale big data systems and distributed pipelines, both real-time and batch, that scale well, respond with low latency and tolerate faults.
• Experience with data modeling and data architecture design.
• Experience with data governance, including data quality, metadata management and security.
• Experience with big data processing frameworks and query engines such as Apache Kafka, Apache Spark (Scala/PySpark), Druid, Trino and Hudi.
• Experience writing high-performance queries over large datasets.
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, Scala, shell scripting, and C++, Go or COBOL.
• Experience building data pipelines and processing layers.
• Experience with DAG-based workflow orchestration using Apache Airflow and Java DAG structures.
• Experience with public cloud platforms, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and operations.
• Experience developing RESTful services and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Git, Maven, Jenkins, Concord, OneOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk.
• Experience with containerization, DevOps practices, and stress, load and integration testing to confirm system performance and reliability.
• Experience building custom UI components in React or AngularJS that show system health, alert status, ingestion metrics and reliability across distributed streaming platforms.
• Experience with Protocol Buffers (protobuf) and serializing high-volume, petabyte-scale data.
• Experience tuning system performance and processing high data volumes in distributed environments, using profiling tools such as perf, bpftrace and flame graphs, plus Linux performance analysis utilities.
• No minimum amount of experience with these skills is required.

Conditions

Location: 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

Salary range: $117,000/year to $234,000/year.

Benefit eligibility depends on job classification and length of employment, and some plans have their own terms. Benefits may change, and details are on the company's benefits site.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

The company is a drug-free workplace with a zero-tolerance policy on illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

Benefits

• Annual or quarterly performance incentives, plus performance-based incentive awards.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase plan and company-paid life insurance.
• PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty and voting time.
• Short-term and long-term disability cover.
• Education assistance, with the company paying 100% of college degree costs.
• Company discounts, military service pay and adoption expense reimbursement.