Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Position Overview

Outset is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join our Cloud Infrastructure & Platform team! You will build and own mission-critical foundation systems that ingest process and analyze the health data coming from our Tablo devices as part of a growing network of Internet of Health Things (IoT/IoHT). You will work at all levels of the architecture and develop microservices that underpin Outsets applications ecosystem which serves internal customers external customers and patients. You will impact a plethora of software portals that power data analytics machine learning and business intelligence solutions.

Candidate attributes and abilities

• You possess a very strong technical background and have a high degree of appreciation for distributed data-intensive backend systems design and an uncompromising attitude toward quality and ownership.
• You know well when to develop a solution with core language features and when to leverage a managed service or open-source tools.
• You can evaluate a wide range of technologies recommending solutions and leading efforts to implement and deliver.
• You build cybersecurity into your product designs and understand cybersecurity within an AWS ecosystem.
• Prefer candidates based in Tijuana but work remote with infrequent travel to our offices in Tijuana and/or San Jose CA possible.

Our systems are built using a variety of tech stacks including Core Java Core Scala Java (Spring Boot) Scala (Play) Python Typescript Docker and various AWS technologies.

Some of the systems built and owned end-to-end by our team:

• Distributed messaging cluster (Kafka) for streaming IoT and real-time messaging.
• Data lake warehouse and databases across S3 Postgres RDS and DynamoDB.
• Streaming IoT big data real-time and batch applications ELT/ETL data pipelines.
• Unified platform APIs and services.
• Observability: monitoring and alerting.
• Access and data governance controls and maintenance of PHI as well as non-PHI data.
• Security and access controls across several AWS accounts.
• DevSecOps: provisioning configuration securing and CI/CD

Responsibilities/Functions

• Help build a scalable reliable operable and performant unified application and data platform for Outsets application developers data scientists/engineers etc.
• Design new software systems and enhancements to existing systems to support substantial new software features and products.
• Develop SQL and NoSQL solve big data and complex data problems.
• Develop batch real-time and streaming data solutions data-intensive platform APIs and services.
• Develop performant and robust multi-threaded and event-driven solutions.
• Identify limitations and required features in platform APIs and data tools and partner with peer teams to design and implement them. Collaborate with peer teams to help streamline their POCs and MVPs into production grade systems.
• Help improve our logging to enhance our alerting and debugging of production issues and participate in our on-call support rotation internally and on PagerDuty.
• Help establish and improve measurable metrics for platforms success and service objectives.
• Drive efficiency and reliability improvements through design and DevOps automation: performance scaling observability and monitoring.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of merit and technical perfection.
• When tackling authentication/authorization and sensitive data problems be mindful of security least privilege access PII/PHI and data reliability concerns.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Masters degree in computer science or a similar field or an equivalent combination of education (Bachelors degree) and related work experience.
• Advanced English
• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in software development with hands on coding experience covering full stack and big data.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of: Java Python Scala Typescript/Javascript and SQL.
• Strong foundation in pragmatical computer science with strong competencies in common data structures algorithms OOP Functional Programming and software design and patterns.
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills.
• Experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs data persistence APIs.
• Experience with a variety of backend & database technologies and with making architectural trade-offs.
• Willing to pick up any languages technologies or methodologies necessary - and if a conventional solution does not exist then roll up the sleeves and innovate as necessary.
• Expert with AWS.
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (RDBMS or NoSQL).
• Experience with distributed messaging systems.
• Experience with building real-time messaging solutions with core language features as well as AWS managed services and open-source turn-key solutions.
• Familiarity with microservice architectures containers and related DevOps technologies and concepts.
• Experience with setting up server monitoring alerting logging and server provisioning.
• Experience with Terraform Ansible Docker AWS CDK CloudFormation EKS/Kubernetes or similar technologies.
• Experience with developing and productionizing ML models.
• Experience with AIOps/MLOps - cloud application and infrastructure predictive analytics: catch platform API server job failures before they happen.
• Familiarity with one or more of: DynamoDB S3 Kafka/Zookeeper Kinesis Postgres Snowflake Athena MQTT RabbitMQ GraphQL Avro Protocol Buffers Thrift gRPC nginx AWS VPC ALB CloudWatch CloudTrail SQS SNS Cognito Inspector Lambda Fargate OWASP STIG Spark Flink SageMaker MLFlow TensorFlow Scikit etc.