Software Dev Engineer II

Job Summary

We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity. We are seeking a Software Dev Engineer II to join our team. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the SDE II DevOps Toolchain will participate in building tools, processes, and automation frameworks to improve productivity, drive efficiency, and ensure the quality and reliability of our software products.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our software development tools strategy accelerating our development teams.
• Execute on the implementation of our tools roadmap that includes an CI/CD pipeline to support our broadband, video, mobile, and customer support applications.
• Implement tools to identify, document, and track software defects. Work closely with the development teams to resolve issues and ensure timely fixes.
• Introduce capabilities for effective A/B testing of releases across test populations.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance testing practices, tools, and metrologies.
• Implement tools to monitor and report on key quality metrics including defect rates, test coverage, and test execution progress. Analyze metrics to identify areas for improvement.
• Leverage developer tools and test automation to transform our software release processes and enable the development teams to get capabilities to customers faster.
• Use and customize out-of-the-box tools to instrument and monitor systems.
• Contribute to a structured knowledge base that allows teams to create, maintain, and extend documentation for all our developer tools and processes.
• Establish and gain acceptance for Key Results indicated by our development pipeline and automation test frameworks.
• Use prototypes and proof of concepts as the primary tool for deep and detailed explorations of architecture and software designs.
• Go-to advocate for developer tools in the organization.
• Continue to make Optimum a Developer Friendly Environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 2-4 years of software development engineering experience
• Proficiency in variety of programming languages (Python, Java, C#)
• Experience with Google cloud or Amazon Web Services and their capabilities.
• Thorough understanding of software methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Experience with the implementation and optimization CI/CD Pipelines.
• Experience with the automation of test cases.
• Good intuition for software design, actively looking to learn from other teams and projects.
• Experience with data formats and locality with performance considerations.
• Demonstrated experience solving performance and data issues by applying experience/knowledge.
• Completely comfortable working with live production systems, debugging issues, and taking careful actions with protections against damage.
• Contributes to establishing and maintaining corporate policies related to technology.
• Familiarity with AI Tools and AI First mindset