Remote Staff Software Engineer — Cloud, APIs & Performance

Illumina; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Equity opportunities

paid time off

Job summary

Illumina is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to advance cloud-based genomic software in a remote-friendly setup in the United States. You will collaborate with product owners to design and maintain high-quality software in an Agile team, optimize performance, and contribute to multi-tenant architectures and RESTful services.

The role requires deep low-level programming knowledge, strong testing discipline, and experience with modern web architectures and SCM practices.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
• Strong proficiency in one or more low-level programming languages, such as C++ or Rust, with a deep understanding of language internals, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with SaaS multitenant database architectures using RDBMS, and noSQL stores such as Elastic Search, Cassendra, and MongoDb
• Deep understanding of SOA, web security architecture, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and other architectural patterns
• Experience with client-side MVC Frameworks (i.e., AngularJS, KnockoutJS) is a plus
• Proficient with source control management repositories (such as GIT, SVN, etc.) and CM practices
• Extensive experience writing high quality unit tests against mock objects
• Good understanding of object oriented analysis and design
• Demonstrated success in collaborating in a fast-paced team environment and delivering high-quality software products using established agile development methodologies (such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.) against formal schedules.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners and other application developers to design, code, and maintain high quality, cloud-based applications against established processes in a scrum team setting
• Work with software teams to ensure alignment of architecture to user requirements
• Occasionally provide technical assistance to escalated production issues
• Maintain awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability of new software technologies to platform development efforts
• Provide technical leadership to an Agile team if required
• Lead performance optimization efforts, including memory management, parallelization, and algorithm efficiency.

Skills

C++

Rust

Unit testing

OO design

Agile development

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Git

SVN

AngularJS

KnockoutJS

Elastic Search

MongoDB

Cassandra

Job description

Illumina is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to advance cloud-based genomic software in a remote-friendly setup in the United States. You will collaborate with product owners to design and maintain high-quality software in an Agile team, optimize performance, and contribute to multi-tenant architectures and RESTful services.

The role requires deep low-level programming knowledge, strong testing discipline, and experience with modern web architectures and SCM practices.