Staff Engineer Software

Build and operate highly scalable distributed applications that power catalog indexing systems supporting core product discovery experiences of sites across Fanatics (50%): Drive technical decisions through design documents tradeoff analysis and cross-team technical reviews; Design and implement distributed services to ingest validate and synchronize product catalog data for indexing and serving using GoLang and service APIs such as REST/gRPC; Build and operate event-driven ingestion/indexing workflows using managed streaming (e.g. Kafka / Amazon MSK) and object storage (e.g. Amazon S3) including batch formats such as Parquet where applicable; Architect and implement enhancements to support new feature requests scalability and reliability requirements. Drive commerce search serving configuration updates and relevance improvements to support product discovery outcomes (20%): Work with product management and business to arrive at serving configuration to improve relevance to intent to customers; Configure and maintain search index serving settings and safely roll out serving configuration changes in production; Implement and tune relevance features such as boosting sorting synonyms and product ranking to improve search and browse experiences; Coordinate with platform and partner teams to ensure configuration updates remain compatible with indexing and ingestion workflows. Automated infrastructure provision code release deployments bug fixes and production support and user support including on-call incident response and operational readiness improvements (25%): Coordinate with internal platform teams as well as third-party providers to diagnose issues or unexpected results and deliver fixes; Maintain and improve operational readiness through runbooks knowledge transfer documentation and post-incident follow-ups; Automate infrastructure provisioning and code deployments using CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices such as Terraform GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions; Participate in on-call rotations lead incident triage investigation resolution to issues in production; Meeting/interacting with project consumers to drive and assist with adoption of the project. Training/Mentoring engineers (5%): Mentor engineers through onboarding code reviews and technical guidance; reinforce engineering best practices; Lead team execution through agile ceremonies including standups and sprint planning as well as coordinate task breakdown and prioritization; Mentor engineering interns from different teams during their internship. Partial telecommuting permitted; on-site at 8100 Nations Way Jacksonville FL 32256 when not telecommuting. Salary: $164560 - $174560 per year.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Masters degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field plus 5 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer Software Developer or any occupation job title or position designing dynamically scalable and reliable cloud applications.

Must also have experience in the following: 5 years of professional experience building and maintaining backend service APIs including REST and gRPC and applications using Golang; 5 years of professional experience maintaining production systems supporting automated ingestion/indexing workflows and providing on-call incident response debugging and remediation; 4 years of professional experience automating infrastructure provisioning and code deployments using CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices; 4 years of professional experience instrumenting backend services and pipelines building monitoring/alerting to measure performance and data correctness in production; 4 years of professional experience developing highly scalable multi-tiered distributed applications utilizing sound architecture and design principles to support new feature requests scalability and reliability; 3 years of professional experience building and operating event-driven data ingestion/indexing pipelines to keep data indexes synchronized with upstream catalog changes; 2 years of professional experience mentoring and training

engineers collaborating across teams to support adoption of technology and integration with core data platforms; 2 years of professional experience building and integrating commerce search capabilities including serving configuration updates and relevance concepts such as ranking boosting sorting filtering and query handling.

CONTACT: Apply online at or email resume to: Must specify Ad Code AVBKM in subject line. #LI-DNI #LI-DNP