As a Staff Engineer you will participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle across multiple products, processes, and teams. You will take a leading role in the design and development of a Software Orchestration Portal and Delivery Pipeline that accelerates internal software development teams.
You will have significant influence on architectural decisions and be expected to understand consequences and risks of those tradeoffs. You will be relied on to research and provide solutions for complex problems.
What you'll do
- Lead all phases of a large capabilities or set of products or processes
- Ensure the quality of one or more teams' output.
- Identify opportunities in the SDLC, application support, reliability, and monitoring; and recommend tools and standards to be used across teams to improve efficiency.
- Understand and influence the broad architecture of multiple systems or processes
- Up to date on evolving standards, platform features, and critical vendor and community provided technologies.
- Owns the technical testing and performance of the products or process they support.
- Understands and can communicate effectively about the tradeoffs between technical, analytical, and product needs.
- Sets direction at the project, product or process level and consistently influences decision making across teams and regularly delivers projects on-time and on budget
Basic Qualifications
- 5 or more years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 5 or more years of experience with one of the following to include Ruby, Python, Go or other language.
- Understanding of HTTP, REST, Bearer Auth, JSON Web Tokens and OAuth.
- 2 or more years of experience configuring and maintaining Linux systems and installed services.
- 2 or more years with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift, or other orchestration/containerization platforms.
- 2 or more years of experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications
- 7 or more years of relevant experience
- 7or more years of experience with one of Ruby, Python, Go or other language.
- Solid understanding of HTTP, REST, Bearer Auth, JSON Web Tokens and OAuth.
- Experience with Ruby, with and without Rails.
- Experience with multiple web frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue, etc...
- Experience with MySQL, Postgres, Memcached and Redis
- Experience with messaging platforms; RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS, Kafka, etc.
- Knowledge of Linux, networking, DNS, firewalls, load balancers and other basic infrastructure
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment
- Experience with Terraform and familiarity with the concept of GitOPs
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
