Staff Software Engineer - Network

UKG•Atlanta, GA

3d•$129,500 - $186,100

About The Position

This Staff Software Engineer - Network role is responsible for developing, automating, and scaling network and infrastructure services using software engineering and infrastructure-as-code. This individual should have a software engineering mindset and leverage code and AI tooling to design, develop, deploy, manage and support services via CI/CD pipelines. The role involves contributing to the design, development, and deployment of complex Infrastructure applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance. It also includes participating in architectural design of new features in Google Cloud and its network systems, writing clean and efficient code, maintaining the health and quality of Cloud Network infrastructure services, and proactively resolving issues. The position requires managing project execution and delivery, conducting thorough root cause analysis, and reviewing code developed by other developers. Building testable Infrastructure as Code (IaC), defining and automating tests, and documenting new features, enhancements, or fixes are also key responsibilities. The role includes taking the lead in projects, managing execution and delivery, setting objectives, and committing to priorities and deadlines. Additionally, the role requires rotation on-call duty for incidents.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8-10+ years of professional software and IaC development experience.
Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Terraform, Ansible and GitHub.
Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.
Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
Any Public Cloud Certification.
Proven 4+ years recent experience triaging cases that come from incidents or product defects in public cloud platforms.

Nice To Haves

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Experience in both private and public cloud infrastructure.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
Strong skills in problem solving and leading a multi-disciplinary room.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex Infrastructure applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance.
Identify opportunities to advocate for efficient process change and improvements.
Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features in Google cloud and its network systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code for various software applications and systems.
Maintain the health and quality of Cloud Network infrastructure services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action providing recommendations to optimize performance.
Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.
Voluntarily takes the lead in a project, Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, Sets and communicates project objectives, negotiating project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.
Diligent about reviewing code developed by other developers, provide feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from ground up, unit tests etc.
Build testable IaC (Infrastructure as code) define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using, tools like Terraform, Ansible, Python, Golang, Jinja, Helm and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation as the guide.
Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials in Confluence, Sharepoint, Github repo.
Takes the lead in projects, Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, sets and communicates objectives, commits (and delivers) on priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.
Rotation On-Call duty for incidents.