Staff Software Engineer

Position

This position is eligible for a flexible work location arrangement. The arrangement may be delayed for training or other job acclimation purposes and employee must be in driving distance to Urbandale, Iowa or Moline, IL. Any work location arrangement is based on the needs of the business and is subject to change.

Responsibilities

• Designing, documenting, and validating multi-region active/active architectures and patterns to support disaster recovery efforts.
• Partnering with application owners, platform teams, SRE, security, and business stakeholders to translate business impact into recoverable architectures and tested playbooks.

Skills

• 5 or more years of experience with many programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, Go, or similar languages.
• 3 or more years of experience with building and managing applications and infrastructure in AWS with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 3 or more years of experience providing technical leadership and coordination across multiple teams to deliver production software systems.
• 2 or more years of experience with Continuous Integration and/or build pipeline automation.

Qualifications

• Strong communications skills: Experience working with cross-functional teams, and ability to translate business impact into technical recovery objectives and solutions.
• Experience with testing and SRE practices: fault tolerance testing, chaos engineering, SLO/SLO/error budget familiarity.
• Experience leveraging multi-region AWS services (RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, S3, etc.).
• Experience in with developer container platform architectures and tools such as Kubernetes, EKS, and Docker.
• Experience with eventually consistent data architecture patterns, and implications for multi-AZ and multi-region deployments.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, MIS, or other IT related discipline.

About the Role

John Deere is an equal opportunity employer, including disabled & veterans.