Sr. Distinguished Engineer

Early Warning® • San Francisco, CA

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

This position functions as a strategic individual contributor expected to solve enterprise-wide engineering problems in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. The position is responsible for hands-on coding experience in service of delivering solutions while fully owning enterprise-level initiatives. This role is accountable directly to both the most senior leader of the function they support, such as the Pillar General Manager, as well as the CTO.

Requirements

• Education or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 15 or more years of progressive software engineering experience; recognized as a technical expert with demonstrated experience mentoring and leading large-scale deliverables and processes in a Technology organization
• Minimum 5 or more years of software engineering experience dealing with large scale systems in the cloud.
• Minimum 5 or more years of experience implementing application solutions/ services in Cloud using Containerization, CI/CD, Automated testing and in compliance security guidelines.
• Recognized in the industry as a technical expert in their field through published works, patents and/or industry speaking engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership through large-scale system designs, upgrades, and releases.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and energize people showcasing technical and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated experience with state- of- the- art technology, architecture, and design concepts, open-source operating systems, database systems, computer networking, and security.
• Possesses a deep understanding of executing highly scalable, distributed applications in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional groups and generate results.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Must convey responsiveness and competence when dealing with internal customers, staff, peers, senior management, and vendors.
• Superior leadership presence with strong business acumen.
• Background and drug screen

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree; additional related education and/or related work experience preferred.
• Industry authored content around applicable area of expertise.
• Experience with large-scale enterprises scaling out operations in Amazon Web Services is highly favorable.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Experience; with migrating application & data services from on-prem to Cloud.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, designing massive global networks.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a recognized senior technical individual contributor supporting our most demanding, cross-functional projects across the pillar.
• A visionary leader, builder, and an operator.
• Drives best practices, architectures, and technology decisions inside the Pillar (as applicable) and EWS organization utilizing knowledge and lessons-learned from building enterprise-scale systems in the cloud.
• Consults and collaborates closely with Engineering leaders, Architecture, Security, and potentially external collaboration partners (FIs) that may be engaged with us on key efforts over the years.
• Maintains a very high bar for execution and excellence in the Engineering team, fostering leadership and executive presence throughout; can ‘coach up’ team members and leaders for a highly engaged, high-performing team, and participates in selection of top talent into the team to support these large-scale efforts.
• Identifies opportunities to ship value to Production quickly and in incremental chunks to avoid “big bang” delivery; complex environments benefit from incremental delivery.
• Provides new code solutions (likely POCs) and/or makes coding changes to resolve critical issues in existing application code base; this is an individual hands-on skill requirement.
• Builds and delivers well-considered scaling solutions via strong relationships with key stakeholders in the Data, Architecture and Operations organizations.
• Ensures software development follows effective quality guidelines and best practices in line with the rest of the Engineering organization.
• Ensures accurate/reliable information is provided within company standards including all service level agreements, and audit regulations.
• Ensures solutions are built following our Engineering best practices (e.g., Quality, CI/CD, scalability, etc.).
• Keeps executive-level leaders informed of progress and problems.
• Balances technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
• Makes recommendations at a critical level.
• Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

• Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees