Staff Software Engineer
About The Position
What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
- Strong proficiency in one or more low-level programming languages, such as C++ or Rust, with a deep understanding of language internals, performance optimization, and memory management
- Experience with SaaS multitenant database architectures using RDBMS, and noSQL stores such as Elastic Search, Cassendra, and MongoDb
- Deep understanding of SOA, web security architecture, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and other architectural patterns
- Proficient with source control management repositories (such as GIT, SVN, etc.) and CM practices
- Extensive experience writing high quality unit tests against mock objects
- Good understanding of object oriented analysis and design
- Demonstrated success in collaborating in a fast-paced team environment and delivering high-quality software products using established agile development methodologies (such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.) against formal schedules
Nice To Haves
- Experience with client-side MVC Frameworks (i.e., AngularJS, KnockoutJS) is a plus
- Possess proven troubleshooting skills. Experience debugging complex issues using low-level debugging and profiling tools (e.g., GDB, LLDB, perf, Valgrind, or equivalent).
- Be curious, detail oriented, and analytical, with a proven ability to learn quickly
- Be customer-focused, team-oriented, and motivated, taking ownership of assigned tasks
- Have proven ability to self-manage, as well as manage interdisciplinary relationships
- Have proven verbal and written communication skills
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product owners and other application developers to design, code, and maintain high quality, cloud-based applications against established processes in a scrum team setting
- Work with software teams to ensure alignment of architecture to user requirements
- Occasionally provide technical assistance to escalated production issues
- Maintain awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability of new software technologies to platform development efforts
- Provide technical leadership to an Agile team if required
- Lead performance optimization efforts, including memory management, parallelization, and algorithm efficiency.
Benefits
- access to genomics sequencing
- family planning
- health/dental/vision
- retirement benefits
- paid time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
