Software Engineer - DevOps

<strong>Job Requirements </strong><br><p><strong><u>POSITION: Software Engineer - DevOps</u></strong></p><p><strong><u>Who We Are:</u></strong></p><p>Quest Global delivers world-class end-to-end engineering solutions by leveraging our deep industry knowledge and digital expertise. By bringing together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise, we are able to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most critical and large-scale challenges across the aerospace & defense, automotive, energy, hi-tech, healthcare, medical devices, rail and semiconductor industries.</p><p>We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers. As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you. The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills</p><p> <strong><u>What You will Do:</u></strong></p><ul><li>Estimate, plan, and implement applications in Java or Python or Go</li><li>Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements to build new modules or improve existing modules.</li><li>Evaluate, maintain and improve existing code base to ensure that it is properly structured and utilize software engineering best practices.</li><li>Troubleshoot, identify, and research reported issues, and have the ability to provide recommendations by comparing advantages and disadvantages of various solutions.</li><li>Stay on top of new technologies and tools, and adopt relevant ones to the team.</li><li>Participate in peer reviews, learn and apply software engineering best practices to your work. </li><li>Accountable for meeting assigned project objectives and timelines.</li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Hands-on Kubernetes experience</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Hands-on AWS experience</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Databases and middleware — Postgres, Kafka, Redis</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Big data stack — data warehousing, MPP, Spark, Flink</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Micro-service architecture and service mesh</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">UI development experience</span></li></ul><p><strong><u>What You Will Bring:</u></strong></p><ul><li><span style="color: inherit;">3+ years of software development experience</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Strong command of at least one of Java, Python, JavaScript, or Go</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Experience in backend development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed/parallel systems, information retrieval, networking, or systems/security software development</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and containerd</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or CodeDeploy</span></li><li><span style="color: inherit;">Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams</span></li></ul><p><strong><u>Pay Range:</u></strong> $100,000-$115,000 per annum</p><p><em>Compensation decisions are made based on factors including experience, skills, education, and other job-related factors, in accordance with our internal pay structure. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, paid time off, and retirement plan.</em></p><p> </p><p><strong><u>Work Requirements:</u></strong></p><p>This role is considered an on-site position located in <strong>Cupertino, CA, USA OR San Diego, CA, USA</strong></p><ul><li>You must be able to commute to and from the location with your own transportation arrangements to meet the required working hours. </li><li>Shop floor environment, which may include but not limited to extensive walking, and ability to lift up to 40 lbs.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Benefits begin on day one:</strong></p><p>·      401(k) matching</p><p>·      Dental insurance</p><p>·      Health insurance</p><p>·      Paid time off</p><p>·      Vision insurance</p><p>·      Employer paid Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability</p><br><br><strong>Work Experience </strong><br><p><span style="color:black;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span><br><span style="color:black;">You'll be the day to day owner of build promotion, deployment coordination, and incident triage for a major release. This is fundamentally a coordination and judgment role: you won't be the person writing the code that goes into release, you'll be the person deciding when it's safe to promote, who needs to be in the room when two projects conflict, and whether a live incident gets fixed forward or rolled back. That makes clear, fast, cross team communication the most important skill for this role, more than any specific tech stack.</span><br><br><span style="color:black;"><strong>What You'll Do</strong></span></p><ul><li>Own the build promotion cadence across distributed capability teams (Demand, Supply, Data pipelines etc), moderating handoffs so promotions don't collide.</li><li>Actively resolve multi project conflicts: when two teams need conflicting code versions or configurations in major releases at the same time, decide and communicate how that gets resolved (time slots,feature flag isolation, sequencing).</li><li>Own the environment during major blockers or outages: drive fast alignment across teams and make the final call on fix forward versus rollback.</li><li>Collaborate with dev teams to define and maintain accountability mapping for every critical R9 service: owner, backup owner, escalation path, and contact point.</li><li>Work with E2E and SRE to define and enforce build promotion criteria, validation requirements, and exception handling for changes entering R9.</li><li>Support rollout of safe deployment practices (canary or blue green) as they're piloted and expanded across R9 services.</li><li>Track and report on major release health KPIs (deployment failure rate, mean time to identify, mean time to fix, P1 SLA compliance) and surface trends to engineering and leadership.</li><li>Partner with capability teams to close configuration, dependency, and feature flag gaps that create recurring instability.</li><li>Monitor the smoke tests and perform initial bug triage using existing tools and involve the right dev partners as needed for resolving the bugs.</li></ul><p><br><br><br><span style="color:black;"><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></span><br><br><span style="color:black;"><strong>Required Qualifications:</strong></span><br><span style="color:black;">- Experience in release engineering, build and deployment pipelines, or environment/release management, ideally in a shared, multi team environment.</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You'll be coordinating across teams that don't report to you, running incident calls, and writing promotion/rollback criteria that other teams need to follow without ambiguity.</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Comfort making a decision under pressure (fix forward vs. rollback) and owning the outcome, rather than escalating every call.</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Experience with CI/CD concepts, build promotion gates, and rollback or fix forward processes.</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Ability to work independently across ambiguous, cross team problems without a fixed playbook already in place.</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Proficiency in Python and Bash/Shell scripting</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Strong Git workflow expertise (branching, PRs, merge strategies)</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Hands-on Jenkins (or equivalent CI/CD) pipeline experience</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Unix/Linux systems experience and debugging skills</span><br><br><br><span style="color:black;"><strong>Nice to Have:</strong></span><br><span style="color:black;">- Containerization (Docker) and basic Kubernetes</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Observability tooling (Grafana/Prometheus/Splunk)Familiarity with canary or blue green deployment strategies.</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Experience with incident management processes (triage, severity levels, escalation paths).</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Background working with or alongside SRE teams on monitoring, alerting, or health checks.</span><br><span style="color:black;">- Exposure to advertising or ad delivery systems is a plus, not required.</span><br><br> </p><br><br><strong>Benefits </strong><br><p>Full time benefits for FT hires</p><br><br>