Senior Software Engineer (IoT)

Bird • San Jose, CA

3d

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer plays a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing high-quality software solutions. This position exists to provide technical expertise and ownership of complex features, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability. The engineer is expected to tackle challenging technical problems, write clean and efficient code, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. By mentoring junior engineers and adhering to best practices, this role contributes to the team's success and the overall delivery of Bird's product roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in STEM with 10+ years of professional, relevant experience
• Strong experience with Golang, Object Oriented programming and the JVM
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes and AWS
• Strong proficiency in Golang and JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala) for building scalable backend services.
• Experience working with IoT devices, real-time data pipelines, and communication protocols.
• Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS for cloud-based architectures.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and debugging using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Grafana) for system monitoring and debugging.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations for production system support and critical incident resolution.
• Proven ability to reduce system failures through proactive monitoring, alerting, and post-mortem analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to advocate for technical solutions and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Experience documenting best practices and technical designs to enhance team knowledge-sharing.
• Expertise in debugging and optimizing large-scale, connected systems handling high-volume telemetry data.
• Ability to evaluate and implement new technologies that improve system resilience and efficiency.
• Proven ability to work across teams, including backend, IoT, data, vehicle and infrastructure, to drive technical decisions.
• Skilled in mentoring engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Ability to contribute to technical roadmaps by identifying system improvements that enhance scalability and reliability.
• Experience implementing best practices to improve system performance, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Ability to travel approximately twice a year

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Kotlin, Avro, and Java
• Extensive experience with Flink, Kafka, and real-time streaming systems
• Expertise in Hadoop Frameworks
• Extensive experience in Geospatial and IOT systems

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable systems: Design, implement, and optimize backend and infrastructure solutions to support business growth. Deliver at least one major feature or system enhancement per quarter that improves performance, scalability, or maintainability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with product, data, vehicle and infrastructure teams to design and implement solutions that align with business needs. Provide actionable recommendations and technical feasibility assessments within agreed timelines.
• Ensure system reliability: Monitor and improve system health, proactively addressing performance bottlenecks and outages. Reduce system downtime by at least 5% annually through incident resolution and preventative measures.
• Mentor engineering talent: Provide code reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship to junior engineers. Conduct at least one structured knowledge-sharing session per quarter and set individual development goals for mentees.
• Optimize development processes: Improve CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and implement best practices to increase engineering efficiency. Reduce manual operational workload by at least 10% per year through automation.
• Contribute to technical roadmap: Collaborate with the team to propose at least two technical initiatives per year that align with the team's roadmap.
• Lead technical problem-solving: Tackle high-impact engineering challenges, conduct post-mortems, and implement long-term fixes. Reduce repeat incidents by 10% annually through improved monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.
• Champion engineering culture: Act as a role model for technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Lead at least one technical discussion, hackathon, or knowledge-sharing event per quarter to strengthen team engagement.

Benefits

• Plenty of time off to relax and recharge, plus a wellness resource to help you wind down.
• A work-from-home stipend.
• An employer-paid healthcare package.
• Bird ride credits to get you where you need to be!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees