Staff Systems/DevOps Engineer

Overview

Come join theIntuit Identity Platform Teamas aStaff**Systems** Engineer.You'll be part of a team developing highly available, resilient, scalable, and secure Authentication and Authorization services using the latest technologies including cloud ready architecture, identity protocols and fraud prevention.Our UI and services are critical for Intuit and used by millions of customers using various Intuit products, including TurboTax Online, QuickBooks Online and Mint. We adopted agile processes to move fast.We consider our people as the most important asset we take the growth of our engineers seriously.

The ideal candidate is a systems engineer who has an expert end-to-end understanding of software systems and the components that comprise them. This includes an understanding of cascading failures, self-healing architectures, high availability architectures, autoscaling, system resiliency, chaos testing, system performance as a whole, throttling, observability, AWS architecture, CI/CD, and canary deployments. The ideal candidate is conversant not only with overall system design but also with microservice development and best practices. The engineer will be directly responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, and documentation of systems patterns and capabilities that can be leveraged across services at Intuit.

What you'll bring

• 8+ years of experience designing and developing world class DevOps capabilities to power consumer-facing web services and web applications.
• 4+ years of experience with running enterprise scaled services running on Amazon Web Services
• Conversant with Kubernetes
• Experience scripting CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins Blue Ocean
• 3+ years of experience with REST-based microservices.
• Conversant with observability technologies such as Splunk, Wavefront, or Lightstep (OpenTelemetry).
• Expertise with Java/J2EE or related programming language.
• Expertise with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong leadership experience: Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person, and cross-functional leader.
• Expertise in the Software design/architecture process.
• Expertise with unit testing & end-to-end testing
• Building strong teams - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent
• Experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, or Extreme Programming methodologies
• Strong educational background with BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.

How you will lead

• Apply high availability and self-healing principles to architect software systems, which aligns well with the product and Intuit ecosystem.
• Design and implement system-wide capabilities to increase the scalability, resiliency and observability of software services.
• Lead effort to automate and stream line the CICD process and keep evolving and improve capabilities around quality and operation excellence.
• Hands-on with troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of incidents in both PROD and pre-PROD.
• Work cross-functionally with various Intuit teams including: product management, QA/QE, various product lines, and/or business units to drive forward results
• Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning
• Acting as the technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems.