Senior Platform Software Engineer
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Job description
Operating a reliable global service requires good observability and automation. The Observability team is responsible for the infrastructure that processes telemetry data in Real Time and provides insights that engineers depend on to measure, visualize, investigate, and optimize how customers experience the service. We are looking for a passionate software engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and operating large scale distributed systems and excel at collaborating with partners. Ideally, you have a background in incident management, service catalogs, request tracing systems, time series telemetry platforms, application performance management tools or log management tools.
This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr Manager, SRE. Responsibilities
- Write high quality code that is easy to maintain and test
- Design and build platform components needed to power the observability stack
- Ensure design and architecture is extensible across projects, and participate in technical design and code reviews
- Work with Product Management, stakeholders and other developers to understand design requirements and provide estimates for development
- Stay current with the latest observability best practices and share your findings with the team
- Work as part of a cross-site development team
- Raise issues proactively that might impact delivery commitments
- Coaching and mentoring other team members with new technologies
Job Designation
Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)
Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law. What you bring
Requirements
- 5+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years related experience with a Master's degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent experience
- Deep understanding of OOP/OOD principles, design patterns and data structures
- Strong Java, C# or C+, Object Oriented design and programming skills
- Experience writing scalable web services
- Experience with state-of-the art development tools and techniques
Preferred
- noSQL stores such as Cassandra, MongoDb & DocumentDb
- Experience with dev tooling/portals like backstage.io
- Experience in devops tooling space
- Experience with monitoring & Observability systems