Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Go/Golang/Python)

Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Go/Golang/Python)

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and coordinating technical strategies across key business organizations. You will leverage your mastery in both technical and domain areas to collaborate with Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, and senior leaders in setting long-term strategic goals. Your innovative solutions will continue to build on Bayer Crop Science's market advantage, ensuring our technical strategies support global business leads effectively.

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Must have one of the following:
• High School diploma with at least 14 years of relevant professional software engineering experience; OR
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and at least 10 years of relevant professional software engineering experience; OR
• Master's degree and at least 7 years of relevant professional software engineering experience; OR
• Ph.D. with at least 5 years of relevant professional software engineering experience;
• Significant professional experience with and deep knowledge of:
• Authoring high-quality Golang and or Python code to deliver new features, evolve existing services, and resolve defects;
• API design principles (REST, gRPC) and API gateway technologies;
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes (GKE is a nice to have)
• Key architectural patterns, such as microservices and event-driven architecture, with a deep understanding of their related trade-offs;
• Best practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD – GitHub Actions);
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g. Terraform, Kustomize, etc.);
• Deep familiarity with:
• Data architecture and modeling concepts and paradigms;
• Observability concepts, such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and related tooling (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.);
• Being a productive reviewer of code, with an ability to coach others on the differentiation of style and correctness;
• Publish/subscribe models and supporting technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka, Google Pubsub, AWS SNS/SQS, etc.);
• Some professional experience with:
• Relational databases and declarative query languages such as SQL (e.g., Oracle, Postgres, etc.);
• Git version control system and related tools such as GitHub or GitLab;
• Designing, building and running large-scale systems.

Join us in driving innovative solutions and shaping the future of data engineering at Bayer Crop Science.