Jobs · Engineering · Illinois

Senior Software Engineer

SES Satellites · Chicago, IL · 1 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time

Primary Responsibilities / Key Result Areas

  • Design and develop globally deployed cloud based micro-services solutions with high availability.
  • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code with best practices coding standards.
  • Be responsible for current software development practices and principles to identify and implement process improvements.
  • Work with micro-services teams on RESTful API designs - assist with future scripted API’s and web socket implementation and investigations.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline
  • 7–10 years of experience in systems implementation with a focus on both custom web/mobile application development and commercial software systems, with exposure to multiple technical disciplines including development, QA, and DevOps.
  • Strong Core Java skills with hands-on experience in Microservices, REST APIs, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and WebSockets.
  • Proven experience building traditional and serverless applications on AWS (EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, etc.). Solid experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and cloud-native architectures.
  • Hands-on expertise in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or AWS Code Pipeline; strong alignment with DevOps deployment practices.
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure as code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar tools.
  • Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting using tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or ELK stack.
  • Proven ability to manage incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews, ensuring continuous reliability improvements.
  • Knowledge of reliability and performance metrics (SLOs, SLIs, SLAs) and the ability to engineer systems that meet or exceed them.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Familiarity with security best practices for cloud-native and distributed systems, including IAM, secrets management, and data encryption.
  • Ability to work independently or as part of a global agile team, preferably in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
  • Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies, continuously improve systems reliability, scalability, and automation.

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