iSpot
Sr. Software Development Engineer
Bellevue, WA · Senior · Full-time
Work authorization required$136k-$166kDetected 20 hours ago
JavaSpringCode ReviewMySQLSnowflakeAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDCircleCIPlatform EngineeringAPI DevelopmentRabbitMQAirflowData EngineeringLLMsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great.
- As a Senior SDE, you are a foundational pillar of our engineering team.
- You will be responsible for implementing secure deployment strategies, especially for large-scale, high-risk projects.
Responsibilities
- Coding & Debugging: You will design domains with testability and multiple teams in mind, creating extensible and shareable codebases.
- Quality & Release: You will maintain a high standard of quality, setting the example for the team.
- This involves developing the architecture for our automation systems and expertly debugging complex issues within the CI/CD pipeline.
- Leading Adoption: You don't just use AI; you "create space" for teammates to improve their AI tooling through pairing, providing demos, and writing documentation.
- Data-Driven RCA: You will propose and implement viable domain measurement solutions. You'll play a lead role in researching external solutions and leading root cause analysis (RCA) for complex, multi-domain incidents.
- Data Pipeline Ownership: You will design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines-authoring and orchestrating Airflow DAGs and leveraging Snowflake for large-scale analytics workloads-ensuring data flows are observable, performant, and cost-efficient.
- Scalability & Influence: You will build internal networks to improve organizational speed and the quality of technology solutions, removing obstacles for the team as they arise.
- Cost-Conscious Engineering: You will drive a mature cost-optimization strategy, ensuring that architectural decisions and cloud resource utilization are both performant and cost-efficient.
- You will design domains with testability and multiple teams in mind, creating extensible and shareable codebases.
- You will propose and implement viable domain measurement solutions.
Requirements
- Experience leading small-to-mid-sized technical initiatives is required.
- Architectural Leadership: Proven ability to make high-level architectural decisions, including redesigning legacy services to ensure they are highly reliable and operable.
- Platform Engineering: Hands-on experience with Platform Engineering principles, focusing on internal developer experience, infrastructure abstraction, and building self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
- Cloud Native: Expert knowledge of AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, IAM).
- Tech Required: Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Snowflake, RabbitMQ (or similar message broker), Apache Airflow (DAG design and development), Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines.
- AI Native: Experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development (e.g., Kiro, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, or similar, Claude Code).
- Soft Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences (from junior devs to senior leadership).
- You are adept at handling personal conflicts within the team and navigating ambiguity to reach strategic milestones.
- Proven ability to make high-level architectural decisions, including redesigning legacy services to ensure they are highly reliable and operable.
- Hands-on experience with Platform Engineering principles, focusing on internal developer experience, infrastructure abstraction, and building self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
- Architectural Leadership: Proven ability to make high-level architectural decisions, including redesigning legacy services to ensure they are highly reliable and operable. You follow industry best practices for high-availability API design and the streamlining of complex database operations.
- Soft Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences (from junior devs to senior leadership). Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Nice to have
- Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay.
- Individual compensation packages are influenced by different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-re
Skills
- Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences (from junior devs to senior leadership).
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD concepts ( CircleCI ).
- A track record of identifying trends in incidents and introducing broad solutions to address them.
- Operational Excellence & Data Strategy
- Leadership & Collaboration
Compensation
- $136,100 - $165,802 USD Annually
- We are committed to providing competitive, market-informed compensation.
- The cash compensation above includes base salary, variable commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets for eligible roles.
- In addition to cash compensation, all full time iSpotters are eligible to participate in iSpot's equity plan to receive stock options.
- Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay.
- Individual compensation packages are influenced by different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-re
Benefits
- You routinely work cross-functionally to align partners and stakeholders with the project vision and strategy.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Immigration / Work Authorization Notice: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. iSpot is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.
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