Staff Software Engineer

Description

The company is hiring a Staff Software Engineer based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale CA 94089.

The work centers on specific components and modules of a product, covering requirements, design, coding, testing and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Review existing software products and solutions to find those that meet business and technical needs.
• Compare customer and business expectations with current products and solutions to identify gaps.
• Sort requirements into their applicable types.
• During requirements gathering, spot solution risks and issues, tell the relevant stakeholders, and propose corrective steps.
• Help write user stories for software components and applications.
• Track and analyze defects in a component or module, and run regression testing so fixes hold across every code change.
• Review defects from earlier software engineering work to prevent similar ones from returning.
• Find and resolve performance and availability bottlenecks in applications.
• Handle complex maintenance tasks on software applications on your own.
• Track suitable metrics to monitor and assess application performance.
• Carry out corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance engineering.
• Analyze application logs, maintenance records and performance data, and report your findings.
• Judge which change requests are valid and feasible.
• Help design solutions so processes and applications work together within specific components or modules.
• Weigh trade-offs in component design against business requirements.
• Help turn high-level designs into detailed designs, including mock screens, pseudocode and detailed functional logic for specific modules or components.
• Choose suitable frameworks, platforms and environments for coding, configuration and scripting.
• Help build telemetry by deciding which data and metrics the domain needs.
• Join ad-hoc code reviews to confirm baseline mitigations for known risks.
• Write and configure lean code for the whole product or system, making sure it meets business and non-functional needs, with low maintenance effort, high availability and high scalability.
• Order software engineering requirements into a programming sequence after analyzing them.
• Lead the creation of scripts that automate repetitive, routine work in CI/CD, testing or other domain processes.
• Turn customer requirements into a test strategy.
• Select, introduce and implement testing tools.
• Define the scope and method of testing for each requirement.
• Make sure test cases cover every test scenario for product and solution requirements.
• Help run test cases to detect errors and defects across the entire product.

Requirements

• A Master's degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering or a related area, plus 2 years of software engineering or related experience; or a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in one of those fields, plus 4 years of software engineering or related experience.
• Experience programming in Scala.
• Experience coding in an object-oriented language, including Python.
• Experience writing advanced SQL queries and understanding relational databases.
• Experience using Tableau, Power BI and Looker to build executive dashboards.
• Experience building pipelines with Alteryx, Apache Airflow and Jenkins.
• Experience with big data systems such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark and Presto, building software that is highly reliable, performant and easy to use.
• Experience coding in Pyspark and Jupyter notebook.
• Experience using Git and GitHub for engineering excellence.
• Experience building unsupervised and supervised machine learning models, clustering models, xgboost models and knn regressors in R and Python.
• Experience beyond the minimum with these skills is accepted.

Conditions

Salary range is $150,080/year to $286,000/year.

Work location is 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale CA 94089.

Benefit eligibility depends on your job classification and length of employment, and plans may change or follow their own terms.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and runs a drug-free workplace with zero tolerance for illegal drugs and alcohol on the job.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentive awards, paid annually or quarterly.
• Medical, vision and dental health coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase plan and company-paid life insurance.
• PTO including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty and voting time.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Education assistance with 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement and more.