Staff Software Engineer – Global Governance
Walmart
CloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaKubernetesSpring
Staff Engineer – Kafka, PaaS Open-Source Messaging
GEICO
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chevy Chase • California, Maryland, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $115,000 - $230,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKafkaPrometheusPulsarPythonRabbitMQSDLCTerraform
About the role
- Focus on multiple areas and provide technical 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
- Be 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
- Take on-call and operation support
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience in complex system design, data pipeline and architectures, scalable distributed systems
- Fluent in at least one OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, etc.
- Fluency in at least one open-source messaging and event streaming products like Kafka, Pulsar, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ etc. with proven understanding of concepts like Topic Scaling, Partitions, Consumer Groups, etc.
- Experience building Kafka Connectors or other tooling on Kafka
- Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- 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)
- Experience with open-source messaging and event streaming platforms with emphasis on building enterprise scale platforms
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be a plus
- Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus will be a plus
- Familiarity with other messaging and event solutions like Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hub will be a plus
- 6+ years of professional experience.
- 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 similar cloud service preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
JavaGoPythonC++KafkaPulsarActiveMQRabbitMQCI/CDdata structures
Soft skills
technical thought leadershipcollaborationmentoringinfluencingprocess improvementadaptabilitycoachinganalytical problem solvingcommunicationresource evaluation
