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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Deere & Company
- **Location:** Urbandale, IA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $109,284.0 - $163,920.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Cloud Computing, System Configuration, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Programming Tools, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Data Processing, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations, Api Design, Docker, Databricks
- **Published:** October 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8e8c441861d1647c

## About the Role

* 5 or more years of professional software engineering experience
 * Strong Python skills, including library or API design, testing, packaging and dependency management
 * 3 or more years of experience building and supporting production cloud-based systems, preferably on AWS
 * Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containers (Docker), infrastructure-as-code and automation, with a DevOps mindset
 * Experience building internal tools, shared libraries or developer tooling used by other engineers or data scientists
 * Some exposure to Spark or other distributed data processing frameworks
 * A solid foundation in computer science fundamentals
 * Strong communication skills, including writing clear documentation and working with technical users
 * A sense of ownership, curiosity and the ability to do well in a fast-paced, collaborative team

What Makes You Standout

 * Experience building and managing internal development tools and platforms
 * Experience with Scala
 * Experience with Databricks
 * Experience with Kubernetes or a similar container orchestration platform
 * Familiarity with data science and ML workflows, such as notebooks, experiment tracking or MLOps tooling
 * Experience working with large-scale data (terabytes or more)
 * Contributions to open-source Python projects
 * An advanced degree in computer science, engineering or a related field

Education

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

 * A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related technology discipline

## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer for John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group located in Urbandale, IA, you will, * Build, test and maintain a Python- and Scala-based data processing platform, along with supporting libraries, SDKs, and CLIs. These help software engineers and data scientists build, deploy and run data and ML workloads.

 * Build self-service tools and automation for CI/CD, environment setup, packaging and deployment, so that secure, observable and scalable choices are the default
 * Own platform components from start to finish, from design through production support - this includes integrations with Spark, Databricks and data lake systems
 * Work closely with the engineers and data scientists who use the platform to understand their pain points, gather feedback, write clear documentation and help them adopt new tools, The terms of the applicable benefit plans, and all company actions administering or interpreting these plans, continue to control. Deere & Company reserves the right to suspend, amend, modify, or terminate the Plan(s) in any manner at any time, including the right to modify or eliminate any cost-sharing between the company and participants. Changes, which can be made at any time, are made by action of the company's board of directors, or to the extent authorized by resolution of its board of directors, or by the Deere & Company Compensation Committee. In the event of a conflict between the language of the official Plan Documents and this document, the language of the official Plan Documents will control.