Lead Software Engineer

Description:

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies

• Communicate Service Level Objective concepts to product partners and drive agreement on objectives

• Influence the strategic direction of the team, identifying and prioritizing opportunities to improve reliability

• Drive resolution of issues on incident calls, providing systematic and logical approaches and prioritize the work of multiple teams to drive resolution

• Drive improvements to the incident resolution process with the introduction of automation

• Conduct blameless incident reviews and post incident analysis and communicate incident review learnings

• Drive implementation of processes or solutions that improve reliability across multiple platforms

• Identify gaps in automation and develop strategic plans to drive solutions that reduce toil for the platform teams

• Work with other experts to arrive at optimal design and deployment configurations

• Establish standards that improve deployment and system reliability for integration pipelines and recommend approaches for chaos testing a particular system

• Identify and create proactive, automated approaches for system reliability and alerting and identify key performance indicators for a system, including adding, tuning and maintaining alert configurations

• Understand business requirements for system reliability and translate them into implementations such as scaling, failover, timeouts and health checks and work with development teams to test and improve system performance and reliability

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• At least 4 years of engineering or development experience (Internship experience does not apply)

• At least 2 years of experience with coding or scripting

• At least 2 years of experience deploying and supporting Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, GitLab, Spinnaker)

• At least 2 years of experience with a cloud computing provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

• At least 2 years of experience deploying Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)

• At least 2 years of experience in database server infrastructure (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, MySQL, Postgres)

• At least 2 years of experience in container orchestration services (ECS, Kubernetes)

• At least 2 years of experience building and testing software (Jmeter, Mockito, JUnit)

• At least 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing strategic projects