Staff Software Engineer - Portfolio Services
Build resilient distributed backend services and tooling, troubleshoot complex cross-application issues, and improve software delivery processes. The role requires extensive backend engineering experience, Java proficiency, Linux expertise, and familiarity with modern infrastructure and observability technologies.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Develop resilient distributed services and high-quality tooling to support product operations and engineering.
- Investigate and debug complex issues spanning teams and applications.
- Drive software delivery and improve engineering processes used to develop and release software.
Requirements
- Comfortable working independently with a bias for action.
- Thrives in ambiguous spaces where there is no clear solution.
- Enjoys digging into new problems and unfamiliar codebases.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Extensive backend software engineering experience.
- Proficiency developing with server-side object-oriented languages such as Java.
- Proficiency with Linux.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, monitoring, logging, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
- Familiarity with HTTP, REST, and web APIs.
Skills
Java, Linux, CI/CD, Monitoring, Logging, Containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure As Code, Http, REST APIs, Web Apis
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