Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Staff Software Engineer

The world's farmers make high‑stakes decisions every season — and the platforms built by Digital Farming Solutions Engineering empower those decisions with smarter data. As a Staff Engineer, you will architect platforms to scale, remain reliable, and meet the demands of AI and machine learning at a global level.

• Define and drive the technical strategy for the organization’s highest-priority initiatives, from architecture through delivery.
• Bring clarity to ambiguous, high‑complexity problems — translating strategic goals into actionable technical direction that teams can execute with confidence.
• Set and evolve the engineering standards for reliability, observability, and code quality that define how Digital Farming Solutions builds software at scale.
• Actively develop senior engineers into Staff‑level leaders, sponsoring their growth into organization‑wide initiatives with impact.
• Champion a culture where engineering decisions are grounded in farmer outcomes — connecting technical trade‑offs directly to the real‑world impact on the people we serve.
• Shape the technical approach for the full spectrum of agricultural data — from on‑farm precision sensors to satellite and geospatial imagery — ensuring platforms handle it with accuracy, scale, and performance.
• Drive architectural decisions for data‑intensive, algorithmically complex precision agriculture systems, partnering with data science and product to turn research into production‑grade capabilities.

• BS or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience in software development.
• Proven history of learning new skills and technologies quickly.
• Experience leading across teams the development of highly scalable cloud‑based (AWS preferred) microservices and data pipelines using container technologies such as Docker.
• Ability to take ambiguous requirements in complex domains and distill them into actionable tasks for other engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly to engineering and non‑engineering audiences.
• Expert knowledge in at least one modern backend programming language (e.g., Java, Python) and ability to write understandable, testable code with an eye toward maintainability.
• Strong understanding of at least one containerization technology (e.g., Docker).
• Strong understanding of at least one public cloud platform.
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies and best practices.
• Experience using observability techniques to drive at‑support and improvements of systems.
• Proficiency with managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Lab Pipelines, Git Hub Actions).

• Experience with modern REST and Graph
  
  QL API design.
• Exceptional customer focus, ownership, and drive.
• Proven ability to develop other strong senior engineers into Staff engineers, operating and leading their own initiatives with organization‑wide scope and high impact.
• Experience with relational and non‑relational data stores. Expert knowledge of at least one. Strong knowledge and experience with SQL including performance tuning and query optimization.
• Strong understanding of multiple AWS capabilities (EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, etc.).
• Strong experience with event‑driven architectures using messaging middleware (SQS, JMS, etc.).
• Experience with layered geospatial data structures and data representations.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $117,000‑$171,000. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program. Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, and more. This salary (or salary range) is an estimate and may vary based on location, market data, applicant skills, and other factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 5/19/26.

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans. Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodations. Bayer is an E‑Verify Employer.

United States:
Residence Based;
United States – Illinois:
Chicago;
United States – Missouri:
Creve Coeur;
United States – Washington:
Seattle

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