Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

Responsibilities: 

• Design/rearchitect our infrastructure platform components to be highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure. 
• Design, implement and optimize Big Query datasets, tables and queries for large scale analytics.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Big Query Performance, including query optimization and cost management 
• Manage and monitor data ingestion pipelines using tools like dataflow or Kafka
• Ensure Data security and compliance in Big Query, including IAM Policy and data encryption
• Manage database schema changes using Automation tool like Liquibase or similar
• Ensure Observability is an integral part of the infrastructure platforms and provides adequate visibility about their health, utilization, and cost. 
• Implement IaC using tools like Terraform/Terragrunt
• Build tools that predicts saturations/failures and takes preventive actions through automation.
• Collaborate extensively with cross functional teams to understand their requirements; educate them through documentation/trainings and improve the adoption of the platforms/tools.  

Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience in building large scale distributed system in an always available production environment. 
• 5+ years of experience in building Infrastructure Platforms and CI/CD pipelines in a major public cloud provider GCP preferred; hands-on expertise in commonly used Cloud infrastructure/platforms services tools and services.
• Expertise with Big Query and working knowledge on AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner is a plus.
• Experience with Data Pipeline tools like Dataflow, Kafka or Pub/Sub and Kubernetes and its ecosystem
• Experience in Python, Shell/Bash Scripting, or a similar language. 
• Fast learner and able to troubleshoot complex scenarios while process large volumes of data (Terabytes and Petabytes)
• Hand-on experience with observability platforms/tools like Grafana/Prometheus. 
• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior engineers; strong verbal and written communications.
• GCP certification would be added advantage 
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.