Distinguished Engineer Job Chevy Chase area,Maryland USA,IT/Tech

Position Responsibilities

Develop and drive the overall tech strategy for the Reliability and observability tools organization, and report to the Senior Director.

Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership as Observability Domain Technical Champion
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Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems.

Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Observability Engineering domain.

Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.

Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives.

Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable systems, considering both on-premises and cloud-based solutions.

Develop and maintain comprehensive incident response plans to address various disaster scenarios on our backup/restore systems.

Conduct regular simulations and drills to ensure the readiness of the organization in the event of a disaster.

Hands-on software engineering and SDLC best practices (Technical Review Documents, Architecture, Software Development, Software Reviews, Testing, Production Readiness Reviews, among others).

Evaluate, select, and implement cutting-edge technologies and tools to enhance our data safeguard capabilities including but not limited to processes, compliance, and visibility.

Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our data safeguard capabilities.

Work closely with executive leadership, IT teams, and other stakeholders to communicate the importance of data safeguarding and foster a culture of resilience.

Act as a trusted advisor, providing guidance on backups/restores and security of data, matters to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Possess Finops discipline, analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans.

Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning.

Qualifications

Deep hands-on experience in building complex distributed systems to process large scale telemetry and architectures to support the scale and performance, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes.

Advanced knowledge of at least two of the OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, etc.

Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, Postgre

SQL, etc. and strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Clickhouse, Cassandra, Apache Trino, etc. Knowledge of big data formats such as Parquet or Avro.

Experience in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions. Advanced data analytics using Open-Source technologies are a big plus.

Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis.

Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.

Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code.

In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.

Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches.

Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log.

Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment.

Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication).

Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster.

Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkins/Circle

CI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus.

Knowledge in ML and AI technologies.

Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus.

Experience

10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.

8+ years of experience with architecture and design.

6+…


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