Senior Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using core DevOps principles.

• Hands-on experience in using Docker, Kubernetes with proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

• Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable.

• Work closely with Operations Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders for cross-functional development activities.

• Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques, integrate code security tools for Continuous Integration.

• Automated deployment, Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and release engineering to Development, QA and Production environments.

• Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.

• Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of environment automation.

• Experience with configuration automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt).

• Experience with middleware and databases like Kafka, Aerospike, Cassandra, MySQL or similar.

• Responsible for the stability and high availability of environments by using automation and self-healing principles.

• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review.

• Championing driving application, infrastructure enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.

• Collaborate with team to build performance test suite and run simulations with high throughput workload, analyze performance simulation results to fine tune component design and implementation.

• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.

• Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, code best practices and lessons learned.

• Support in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in production environment.

• Extraordinary software engineering talent.

• Minimum of 12-15 years DevOps experience.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related degree from recognized university.

• Proficiency in scripting languages.

• Knowledge of functional programming languages like Go, Scala, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure etc. or the ability to learn them quickly.

• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.

• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience in working in highly agile environment.

• Understanding of self-healing/immutable microservice based architectures, cloud platforms, clustering models, networking technologies.

• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

• Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is a big plus.

• Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana etc. is a big plus.

• Experience with Docker Networking, Service Mesh, Proxies is a big plus.

• Certifications from CNCF - CKA / CKAD is a big plus.

• Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus.

• Extraordinary software engineering talent.
• Minimum of 12-15 years DevOps experience.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related degree from recognized university.
• Proficiency in scripting languages.
• Knowledge of functional programming languages like Go, Scala, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure etc. or the ability to learn them quickly.
• Working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.
• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in working in highly agile environment.
• Understanding of self-healing/immutable microservice based architectures, cloud platforms, clustering models, networking technologies.
• Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Previous experience with financial services or payments processing domain is a big plus.
• Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana etc. is a big plus.
• Experience with Docker Networking, Service Mesh, Proxies is a big plus.
• Certifications from CNCF - CKA / CKAD is a big plus.
• Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus.

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