Staff Software Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

As a staff engineer at Arm, not only will you play a part in developing the technology of tomorrow, but you will also have the opportunity to directly help and support hundreds of thousands of engineers worldwide using our platforms to develop their solutions or applications.

If you are craving for that exciting and challenging role – Arm is the place for you!

The Development Platforms Group is delivering on Arm’s ambition to be ubiquitous across all compute (Cloud, AI, Mobile, IoT, Automotive) and as accessible as possible. It also strives to reduce the cost, complexity and time needed by our partners, customers and users to adopt or build on our latest designs and pieces of technology.

Responsibilities:

You will be joining a growing team which develops and operates websites, cloud applications and online services to make this possible. In creating and maintaining systems, you will be involved in:

• Building user facing website and cloud applications.
• Building scalable, API-driven cloud services.
• Working across teams to drive continuous improvements in security and quality practices.
• Running cloud infrastructure to ensure high availability and reliability of cloud services with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Applying best practices in agile development including Continuous Integration and Delivery, making automation a key feature of our development processes.
• Following the Agile software development lifecycle by being part of every step: from user research, decision making to implementation, operation and maintenance.
• Applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles defining service-level objectives (SLO) and supporting metrics.

Required Skills and Experience:

• We are looking for an innovative engineer to join us at Arm with a keen interest in software development and more precisely web technologies and cloud services.
• You will have used at least multiple programming (compiled or interpreted) professionally, for example Python, Typescript (Javascript), Java, Go, C++, Rust, C# or Python, preferably in server side deployments.
• Ideally your previous experience will include designing, developing and maintaining Website, APIs, Web services along with connected databases and stores, on dynamically scaled Cloud Infrastructure.
• You will have practical experience and knowledge in best security and quality practices in online systems.
• Familiarity and practical knowledge of common design principles used to build scalable and robust web services.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

A practical appreciation and experience of some of the following concepts:

• Programming Libraries
  • Python - Django, pytest, mypy
  • Go - Ent
  • Typescript (Javascript) - Next.js, React, Jest, Storybook, Playwright, Tailwind
• Service Design Patterns and Technologies
  • Microservice Architecture
  • REST (including HATEOAS)
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
• Change Management
  • Contract-first approach
  • Version control
  • Shift-left testing
• DevOps Practices
  • CI/CD (GitHub, GitHub Actions)
  • Deployment (AWS, Kubernetes)
  • Containerisation (Docker)
  • Test-Driven Development (TDD)

In Return:

We will help you settle into the business and support you to build and be your brilliant self! We believe in personal growth as well as professional development.

On top of that, we will provide:

• Mentoring and leadership
• A competitive salary and rewards package
• Health and wellbeing, career progression and pathway support.
• Hybrid working (as a team, we try to balance remote work and work on site, with a minimum of three set days in the office to allow greater teamwork and decision making)

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