Staff Software Engineer
Company Overview
Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
Intuit is a leading software provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers, financial institutions and accounting professionals. You probably know us by our flagship products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, but that's just the start. Over 50 million users, seven million small businesses and 1,600 financial institutions depend on Intuit because we innovate at the crossroads of real customer problems and breakthrough technology. Join us and let your ingenious ideas be heard.Interested in creating and leading the platforms that are high scale and mission critical? Want to solve large scale and highly availability platform challenges for on premise and public cloud deployments? Intuit is seeking Staff Software Engineer, who is characterized by progressive technical experience and has demonstrated progression in technical prowess, to join PDX Observability Engineering team.
We are looking for creative, brilliant, passionate, enthusiastic and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the Core Systems team who can design and deliver platform with a sharp customer focus. The Staff Software engineer will be a developer in the next generation cloud platform which is used by thousands of developers at Intuit. The successful candidate would be responsible for a set of platform capabilities that maximizes the velocity with which Intuit and 2nd/3rd party developers can build awesome products and drive innovation. The candidate will have a proven history in software development on large scale highly available platforms. This person will be a technical leader with a "hands on" experience in an agile software development environment. The person will be customer focused, seeking constantly to understand and evolve products per the customer's needs.
Interested in creating and leading the platforms that are high scale and mission critical? Want to solve large scale and highly availability platform challenges for on premise and public cloud deployments? Come join the Core PDX Observability team as a Staff Software Engineer.
Responsibilities
- Designs, develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and improves software solutions.
- Solves complex problems by leveraging a variety of technologies.
- Driven to achieve results and committed to producing high-quality code.
- Leads the process of gathering functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and managing project and test plans.
- Demonstrates a strong interest and aptitude for learning new coding languages as necessary.
- Functions as a technical leader and domain expert, beginning to shape technology and product strategy. Makes informed decisions at a local level, considering both immediate and long-term implications, as well as business impact.
- Utilizes data to inform product and technical decisions within their area of responsibility.
- Enhances team knowledge, skills, and engagement through collaborative technical workshops and other relevant forums.
- Mentors and evaluates engineers, actively fostering and sustaining a robust talent pipeline. Regularly participates in performance reviews and calibration sessions.
- A quick and eager learner who actively seeks opportunities to contribute to other Intuit codebases and open-source projects.
- Possesses expertise in cloud technologies and in architecting and delivering highly scalable and resilient systems.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in designing and developing high scale distributed systems / AI applications
- Experience on AI, Machine Learning Models, LLM, Gen AI
- Experience on Observability Domain (Traces/Logs/Metrics)
- Experience working with three or more of the following: Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, workflow automation, CI/CD platform development, cloud platforms development (e.g., AWS/GCP), and Kubernetes/container platforms-based development.
- Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages such as Java and Python.
- Experience in Kubernetes and Docker container-based development, packaging, and deployments.
- Familiarity with open-source technologies.
- Experience with various modern web frameworks, cloud/SaaS, and the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Experience in messaging/queueing systems.
- Experienced in developing highly scalable and available web applications.
- Exhibit strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Career Path
Mobility plays an important role for our engineering community. In addition to vertical growth, our teams offer lateral growth opportunities. Whether it’s working on a different tech stack or product, Intuit will help you get to the next step in your career.
- Software Engineer 1 & 2
- Sr. Software Engineer
- Staff Software Engineer
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer
- Principal Software Engineer
- Distinguished Software Engineer
There's so much flexibility in terms of moving not just between teams, but between roles.
Lucy Shen Developer Advocate
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