Technical Leader
Storage, the core of a global cloud infrastructure, provides 10 exabytes of capacity across 50 regions, 100+ data centers, and over 1000 storage clusters. It powers millions of virtual machines, holds millions of hours of video, billions of photos, and vast amounts of analytics data.
As a Technical Leader you will play a key role in defining the technical direction of complex systems, while delivering continued improvements as well as pathbreaking features at a high quality. In addition, you will work on the latest server technologies and highly distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, consistency and debuggability.
Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As team members we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
* Partners with stakeholders to determine user requirements for scenarios.
* Leads identification of dependencies and development of design documents for products, applications, services or platforms.
* Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
* Leverages expertise of cross-product features with stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
* Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
* Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
* OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements
* Ability to meet security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
* Background Check: This position will be required to pass a background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
* OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
* OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
* OR equivalent experience.
* 5+ years of proficiency in C/C++ object-oriented programming.
* 5+ years of technical communication skills.
* 5+ years of expert knowledge on Cloud Scale storage or Distributed systems.
We are an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.