Overview
Partner with PMs, tech leads, and stakeholders to determine user requirements, leveraging continuous feedback loops and customer usage insights to inform design and solution quality. Lead architectural discussions, create design proposals, and make high‑confidence design decisions that consider security, compliance, performance, and future scalability. Identify cross‑team dependencies and coordinate across teams to ensure coherent systems, optimized performance, and reliable integration paths. Write, review, and maintain high‑quality, extensible, and maintainable code; mentor others in best practices and coding patterns. Lead debugging initiatives using telemetry, logs, and diagnostics to identify root causes and resolve complex issues effectively. Drive project and release planning by breaking long‑term vision into actionable milestones and guiding estimation and execution across teams.
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Full Job Description
Partner with PMs, tech leads, and stakeholders to determine user requirements, leveraging continuous feedback loops and customer usage insights to inform design and solution quality. Lead architectural discussions, create design proposals, and make high‑confidence design decisions that consider security, compliance, performance, and future scalability. Identify cross‑team dependencies and coordinate across teams to ensure coherent systems, optimized performance, and reliable integration paths. Write, review, and maintain high‑quality, extensible, and maintainable code; mentor others in best practices and coding patterns. Lead debugging initiatives using telemetry, logs, and diagnostics to identify root causes and resolve complex issues effectively. Drive project and release planning by breaking long‑term vision into actionable milestones and guiding estimation and execution across teams. Lead experimentation, validation, and data‑informed decision‑making to ensure solutions meet customer value metrics. Serve as a DRI, leading incident response, building playbooks, mentoring others on operational excellence, and driving efforts to reduce incident volume across services. Integrate telemetry and observability frameworks, drive feedback loops, and ensure systems are reliable, scalable, and cost‑efficient. Lead improvements to engineering tools, automation, and workflows; champion security, privacy, accessibility, and compliance standards across teams. Stay current on emerging technologies, share knowledge, and promote consistency in engineering methodologies at scale. Lead conflict resolution across teams, ensuring aligned priorities and smooth execution across interdependent systems. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C# / PowerShell, Java, JavaScript or Python OR equivalent experience. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Experience building and shipping production grade software or services. A track record of designing, deploying, and operating large scale services with high availability. Postmortem analysis and authoring for live site issues. Experience with build systems, and validation systems for hardware, software, and cloud services.
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