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Staff Software Engineer

Category Software Engineering Location Mountain View, California Job ID 16707
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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

Come join the GBSG (Global Business Solutions Group) Operation Excellence Engineering team at Intuit to help us manage and scale our database infrastructure behind our flagship products. We are looking for a passionate engineer with experience in SQL and NoSQL database technologies and other Cloud Native data technologies. This position will be responsible for designing, developing, building, integrating, and managing enterprise level database systems with complex inter dependencies and high availability, security, performance, scalability and cost optimization requirements. 


Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain complex data systems supporting millions of customers with Cloud Native principles and best practices to ensure highly available, secure, performant and scalable database systems.
  • Plan and deploy database infrastructure build out and perform upgrades and migrations as needed.
  • Resident expert in Aurora PostgreSQL database performance and scalability, complex query tuning, monitoring and incident response.
  • Collaborate with multiple functional teams to coordinate database changes adhering to best practices in an agile development environment.
  • Contribute to infrastructure changes to AWS with deep understanding of AWS services.
  • Manage complex data replication environment serving batch as well as real time use cases.
  • Engage in on-call for production systems and act for incoming pagers/alerts.
  • Independently troubleshoot incoming production and pre-production issues and provide timely resolution.
  • Contribute to major system upgrades, deployment automation, monitoring enhancements and Production changes.
  • Create operational playbooks, contribute to how-to articles, and gain domain knowledge to drive changes in the team.



Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
  • 8+ years of hands-on development and operational experience with Oracle, Postgres or mySQL and other data technologies
  • Experience with AWS Data Migration Service, Oracle Goldengate, and other replication technologies
  • Extensive performance monitoring, troubleshooting and tuning experience.
  • Experience with data modeling for OLTP and data warehousing
  • Experience with AWS services and hands-on knowledge of hosting on cloud
  • Experience with scripting languages for DevOps automation
  • Experience with any one of the programming languages: Java/Python/Ruby
  • Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, Splunk, Wavefront is a plus.
  • Knowledge of NoSQL and Big Data technologies is a plus.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is: 




Bay Area California: 
197,000 - 266,500


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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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