Software Development Engineer-Automation Engineer

Position Summary

The Staff Software Development Engineer in Automation Production Support is a senior technical leader responsible for the stability, reliability, and operational excellence of enterprise automation solutions. The role owns production support strategy for RPA and automation platforms, leads complex incident resolution, and drives proactive improvements to reduce operational risk, partnering closely with engineering, infrastructure, QA, and business stakeholders.

• Serve as the technical owner for production support of automation and RPA solutions across critical business processes.
• Lead incident triage, root‑cause analysis, and permanent remediation for high‑severity automation failures.
• Establish and enforce runbooks, support models, escalation paths, and on‑call readiness for automation platforms.
• Proactively identify systemic issues and implement stability, resiliency, and performance improvements
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• Provide hands‑on technical leadership for automation design, debugging, and optimization in production environments.
• Review automation code and configurations to ensure adherence to standards, security, and reliability best practices
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• Partner with development teams to ensure production readiness of new automations before release.
• Guide architectural decisions that reduce operational complexity and technical debt.
• Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and health dashboards for automation platforms.
• Drive adoption of AIOps, SRE, and automation‑first support practices where applicable.
• Improve observability by defining meaningful metrics such as uptime, failure rates, recovery times, and business impact.
• Act as a key escalation point for automation‑related production issues.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and vendor teams to resolve platform‑level issues.
• Communicate incidents, risks, and remediation plans clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers and support analysts in automation support best practices.

• Extensive experience in software development and production support for enterprise systems.
• Strong expertise in automation/RPA platforms
  , scripting, and debugging complex workflows.
• Proven ability to lead incident response and root cause analysis in high‑availability environments.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, release management, and production readiness standards
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• Experience supporting mission‑critical automation in regulated or high‑volume environments
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• Familiarity with monitoring tools, job schedulers, and orchestration platforms
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• Experience implementing resiliency patterns, failover strategies, and automation governance
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• Demonstrated leadership in driving operational maturity and continuous improvement
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• Improves reliability and availability of automation supporting core business operations.
• Reduces production incidents through proactive engineering and observability.
• Ensures automation solutions scale safely and sustainably.
• Elevates production support from reactive issue handling to engineering‑led reliability
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Typical pay range: $ – $, based on experience, education, geography, and other factors.

The position includes a comprehensive benefits package—medical, dental, vision, paid time off, retirement savings options, and wellness programs—based on eligibility.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.