Lead Software Engineer

Project Description

Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or Internet-related computer programs. Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.

Duties/Day to Day Overview

·                Production support – LARGE search environment

o        Maintenance, visualizations, working cross functionally with ecomm and other teams

• Adding to clusters, breaking them out
• Innovate in ProdOps every single day

·                Work closely with many teams across the org in order to improve search breaking out clusters and constantly making improvements.

·                Authors, reviews and approves technical designs

·                Mastery of domain programming language

·                Engineers extensible solutions with the team in mind and can fix complex bugs

·                Reviews code to ensure it is functionally correct and consistent with the technical design

·                Accountable for domain dependencies and critical paths

·                Accountable for complex stories and integration or business requirements

·                Accountable for domain dependencies and critical paths

·                Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines

·                Defines useful metrics and targets for domain

·                Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals

·                Innovates measurable improvements

·                Stabilizes emerging technologies

·                Achieves team consent and buy-in

·                Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers

·                Sphere of influence is scrum or project development team

·                Actively shares through peer mentoring, shared resources and informal teachings

·                Teaches and mentors within team

·                Contributes and enforces best practices

·                Inspires teamwork and gently guides the Agile/project team

·                Assists in career development plans for engineers

·                Provides guidance for the work performed by contractors and delegates work

·                Assesses the quality of work and effectiveness of contractors

·                Participates in development of contractor agreements, including deliverables and SLAs

Top Requirements

(Must haves)

·                DEEP knowledge of Opensearch/Elasticsearch 

• Will not be able to train them up – must come in with all experience and ready to dive in.
• Years of experience isn’t the biggest issues as long as they have the Open/Elastic Search background

·                Tech Stack:

o        Kibana

• Logsearch
• Grafana
• Kubernetes/Docker (Rancher)
• Linux OS (Command Line)
• Python
• Kafka/Logstash
• CI/CD pipeline is just maintenance, no building from scratch

Additional Qualifications

(Nice to Haves)

·                Security or Azure experience. Most of what they have is on-prem.

• Ansible Automation
• Retail experience