Senior Software Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development of a rapidly growing commercial platform. As part of our team, you will be responsible for delivering world-class experiences to our customers and partners. This role offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment, providing an excellent opportunity to work on highly strategic and industry-relevant projects. If you excel at solving complex problems, writing high-quality code, and are passionate about building and operating robust, reliable, and highly distributed software systems using the latest technologies, we would like to hear from you.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for various scenarios.
• Drive the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
• Build agentic experience and tooling using latest AI technology, framework, services and tools
• Integrate AI agents with AI echo systems including MCP servers, AI agents, AI services
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance, maintainability
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to
• Drive project plans, release plans, and work items for the workgroup.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the
• playbook, working on call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
• alerting stakeholders about status, and initiating actions to restore systems/products/services for both simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Lead by example, engage in discussions on the architecture of products or solutions, and apply engineering principles to establish robust and maintainable architecture and designs.
• Drive, coach, and mentor others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews.
• Design, develop, and operationalize the deployment of complex, enterprise-grade cloud services that leverage multiple services and platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.
• Drive improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.
• Deliver value through a collaborative approach spanning multiple teams across geographies.
• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving.
• Support and influence the team culture towards customer-centricity and continuous improvement.
• Implement practices that ensure accurate, safe, and efficient releases for our services.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, with problem solving, debugging and analytical skills.
• 2+ years’ experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services.
• Preferred Qualifications: Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, OR equivalent experience.
• Industry experience with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, Google).
• Experience in AI, building AI agents, AI solutions and services, familiar with AI technology.
• Experience with distributed systems, micro-service architecture, scalability patterns, and high-availability architectures.
• Experience with Pub/Sub systems and streaming ingestion systems.
• Proven experience in driving large strategic and complex or ambiguous projects that span organizations.
• Proficient in problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to debugging and performance optimization
• Experience in deploying, monitoring, and operating services in the cloud.
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD and version control systems like Git.

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave

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