Staff Software Engineer

The role

As the Staff Systems Engineer, you will join a growing Platform Engineering team focused on expanding our Core Banking as a Service substrate to handle highly available, multi-tenant, multi-region services across diverse products. 

The role needs experienced engineers with excellent cross-functional and communication skills and backgrounds in operations, software development, systems performance, and resilience engineering. We must always focus on the quality of our customers' experiences. 

What you’ll do: 

• Build the future of Galileo systems, delivering a cloud-first infrastructure and application platform that is secure by default, reduces the cognitive load on the product teams, and thereby accelerates the time to market of new products and features. 
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product to enable security, resilience and compliance outcomes in the hybrid cloud AWS platform through excellent technical design.
• Implement infrastructure as code core tenants to enable wide scale collaboration across the organization.
• Partner with engineering and customers to design and Implement new solutions while improving the resilience of the modern surroundings.
• Communicate tradeoffs in implementation options to team members and leadership.
• Work across teams to ensure that the platform design is meeting the needs of internal customers, and that the patterns can scale for 10x our largest external customer.
• Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies
• Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team
• Communicate and collaborate with product and design

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack.
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Delivery principles and techniques, including unit testing and build & deploy pipelines.
• Ability to lead and influence a team's technical direction
• Experience in the development of backend software development languages such as Python, Go, and Java.
• Strong experience building, analyzing, and troubleshooting scalable distributed systems.
• Experience operating in the Cloud, preferably in AWS.
• Proven working experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux-based environments.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes administration and configuration
• Experience with observability and monitoring systems (i.e. OpenTelemetry, DataDog, ) 
• Demonstrated ability to design for fault tolerance and security while optimizing for high throughput, latency-sensitive workloads.
• Demonstrated experience in configuration management automation and orchestration using automation frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt, Chef and/or Terraform