Senior Staff Data Engineer (Golang)

LaunchCodeSaint Louis, MO
33d$60 - $95Remote

About The Position

The Senior Staff Data Engineer will contribute to solution design and build, while helping to define and drive best practices within the team.

Requirements

  • Minimum of a Bachelors degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related discipline;
  • Author high-quality Golang code to deliver new features, evolve existing services, and resolve defects;
  • Familiarity with API design principles (REST, gRPC) and API gateway technologies;
  • Demonstrated experience with programming languages such as Python or Go;
  • Deep knowledge and demonstrated experience with Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Cloud Platform;
  • Knowledge of key architectural patterns, such as microservices and event-driven architecture, with a deep understanding of their related trade-offs;
  • Knowledge of best practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD);
  • Familiarity with data architecture and modeling concepts and paradigms;
  • Familiarity with Observability concepts, such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and related tooling (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.);
  • Demonstrated experience as a productive reviewer of code, with an ability to coach others on the differentiation of style and correctness;
  • Demonstrated experience with relational databases and declarative query languages such as SQL (e.g., Oracle, Postgres, etc.);
  • Experience with the git version control system and related tools such as GitHub or GitLab;
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g. Terraform, etc.);
  • Familiarity with the publish/subscribe models and supporting technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka, Google Pubsub, AWS SNS/SQS, etc.);
  • Proven experience in designing, building and running large-scale systems

Nice To Haves

  • At least 7 years of demonstrated experience with programming languages such as Python or Go
  • Demonstrated experience migrating Python codebases to Go
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native security best practices;
  • Strong understanding of DevOps best practices;
  • Direct experience implementing service meshes (e.g., Istio) in Kubernetes environments;
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and concepts with direct experience deploying software using the Kubernetes control plane;
  • A demonstrated understanding of Machine Learning and Generative AI concepts;
  • Knowledge of the agricultural domain.

Responsibilities

  • Drive system design discussions and software development within our engineering teams;
  • Promote software design best practices;
  • Author code to contribute new features to a codebase, evolve existing features and fix defects;
  • Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and refine solution requirements;
  • Provide thought leadership and be a trusted technical advisor to the business;
  • Communication of technical principles, solutions and recommendations with business stakeholders, product managers, and other technical leaders;
  • Review code contributions from team members to provide constructive and actionable feedback;
  • Collaborate with Principal Engineers and other engineering teams across the organization to ensure a cohesive and coherent architecture;
  • Work with leadership and team to prospect for and evaluate impactful, purpose-fit technology to introduce to our problem-solving toolbelts;
  • Mentoring of engineers and aiding their journey to become passionate experts in the craft of outstanding software

Benefits

  • LaunchCode Benefits

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What This Job Offers

Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Mid Level

Industry

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Number of Employees

51-100 employees

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