Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Position Overview

Outset is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join our Cloud Infrastructure & Platform team! You will build and own mission-critical foundation systems that ingest, process, and analyze the health data coming from our Tablo devices as part of a growing network of Internet of Health Things (IoT/IoHT). You will work at all levels of the architecture and develop microservices that underpin Outset’s applications ecosystem which serves internal customers, external customers, and patients. You will impact a plethora of software portals that power data analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence solutions.

• sYou possess a very strong technical background and have a high degree of appreciation for distributed data-intensive backend systems design and an uncompromising attitude toward quality and ownership
• .You know well when to develop a solution with core language features and when to leverage a managed service or open-source tools
• .You can evaluate a wide range of technologies, recommending solutions, and leading efforts to implement and deliver
• .You build cybersecurity into your product designs and understand cybersecurity within an AWS ecosystem
• .Prefer candidates based in Tijuana but work remote with infrequent travel to our offices in Tijuana and/or San Jose, CA possible

.Our systems are built using a variety of tech stacks, including Core Java, Core Scala, Java (Spring Boot), Scala (Play), Python, Typescript, Node.js, Docker, and various AWS technologies

.Some of the systems built and owned end-to-end by our team

• :Distributed messaging cluster (Kafka) for streaming IoT and real-time messaging
• .Data lake, warehouse and databases across S3, Postgres RDS, and DynamoDB
• .Streaming IoT big data, real-time and batch applications, ELT/ETL, data pipelines
• .Unified platform APIs and services
• .Observability: monitoring and alerting
• .Access and data governance controls and maintenance of PHI as well as non-PHI data
• .Security and access controls across several AWS accounts
• .DevSecOps: provisioning, configuration, securing, and CI/C

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Responsibilities/Functio

• nsHelp build a scalable, reliable, operable and performant unified application and data platform for Outset’s application developers, data scientists/engineers, et
• c.Design new software systems and enhancements to existing systems to support substantial new software features and product
• s.Develop SQL and NoSQL, solve big data and complex data problem
• s.Develop batch, real-time and streaming data solutions, data-intensive platform APIs and service
• s.Develop performant and robust multi-threaded and event-driven solution
• s.Identify limitations and required features in platform APIs and data tools and partner with peer teams to design and implement them. Collaborate with peer teams to help streamline their POCs and MVPs into production grade system
• s.Help improve our logging to enhance our alerting and debugging of production issues and participate in our on-call support rotation internally and on PagerDut
• y.Help establish and improve measurable metrics for platform’s success and service objective
• s.Drive efficiency and reliability improvements through design and DevOps automation: performance, scaling, observability, and monitorin
• g.Lead and mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of merit and technical perfectio
• n.When tackling authentication/authorization and sensitive data problems, be mindful of security, least privilege access, PII/PHI and data reliability concern

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Requirements/Qualificati

• onsMaster’s degree in computer science, or a similar field, or an equivalent combination of education (Bachelor’s degree) and related work experien
• ce.Advanced Engl
• ishA minimum of 8+ years of professional experience in software development with hands on coding experience covering full stack and big da
• ta.Strong programming skills in one or more of: Java, Python, Scala, Typescript/Javascript, and S
• QL.Strong foundation in pragmatical computer science, with strong competencies in common data structures, algorithms, OOP, Functional Programming and software design and patter
• ns.Strong problem solving and debugging skil
• ls.Experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs, data persistence AP
• Is.Experience with a variety of backend & database technologies and with making architectural trade-of
• fs.Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary - and if a conventional solution does not exist, then roll up the sleeves and innovate as necessa
• ry.Expert with A
• WS.Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (RDBMS or NoSQ
• L).Experience with distributed messaging syste
• ms.Experience with building real-time messaging solutions with core language features as well as AWS managed services and open-source turn-key solutio
• ns.Familiarity with microservice architectures, containers and related DevOps technologies and concep
• ts.Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting, logging and server provisioni
• ng.Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, EKS/Kubernetes or similar technologi
• es.Experience with developing and productionizing ML mode
• ls.Experience with AIOps/MLOps - cloud application and infrastructure predictive analytics: catch platform API, server, job failures before they happ
• en.Familiarity with one or more of: DynamoDB, S3, Kafka/Zookeeper, Kinesis, Postgres, Snowflake, Athena, MQTT, RabbitMQ, GraphQL, Avro, Protocol Buffers, Thrift, gRPC, nginx, AWS VPC, ALB, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, Cognito, Inspector, Lambda, Fargate, OWASP, STIG, Spark, Flink, SageMaker, MLFlow, TensorFlow, Scikit, e

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