Position Description

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead Strategy and Execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source Database platform domain. 

Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain

• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

• Willing to take on-call and operation support

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with J2EE, XML, SQL, XML, and PowerShell Scripting

• Advance knowledge of at least one OOP languages such as Java, .NET, Go, Python, C++, etc

• Advance knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript is preferred  

• Good knowledge of one of the following languages: VB, PHP, Perl, Ruby, SQL, etc.

• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with No-SQL databases like ONgDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc. 

• Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, custom objects/apps, declarative functionality, triggers, migration tools in BMC Helix platform and transition such platform to Open Source is a big plus.

• Experience building and configuring flows, and process builders

• Strong understanding of web service integration (REST/SOAP) and enterprise middleware integration tiers 

• Ability to articulate channel dataflow and process flow including email, messaging, chat, mobile Push and SDK’s

• Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis 

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

• Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

• Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log 

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

• Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment 

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)

• Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster

• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus

• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)

• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies 

• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

Experience

• 6+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems

• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center 

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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