Staff Software Engineer (Go/Golang)

Bayer CropScience Limited; Creve Coeur (MO); Remote; USD 119,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural firm is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with strong expertise in Go/Golang and distributed systems. You will be crucial in building software solutions that transform complex scientific datasets into impactful applications. The ideal candidate will have experience in system architecture, cloud infrastructures, and mentoring engineering teams. This role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Health care

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

Retirement plan

PTO

Sick leave

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A track record of shipping and maintaining multiple major product releases written in Go.
• Extensive experience in system design and architecture for large-scale, distributed applications.

Responsibilities

• Create distributed analysis capabilities around a large variety of datasets.
• Mentor and guide other engineers on areas of expertise.
• Lead technical initiatives, communicating your technical vision and strategy.

Skills

Go/Golang

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Unit Testing

Apache Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’.

Staff Software Engineer (Go/Golang)

Purpose:

The mission of Bayer Crop Science is centered on developing agricultural solutions for a sustainable future that will include a global population projected to eclipse 9.6 billion by 2050. We approach agriculture holistically, looking across a broad range of solutions from using biotechnology and plant breeding to produce the best possible seeds, to advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics designed to select the best possible crop system for every acre.

To make this possible, Bayer collects terabytes of data across all aspects of its operations, from genome sequencing, crop field trials, manufacturing, supply chain, financial transactions and everything in between. There is an enormous need and potential here to do something that has never been done before. We need great people to help transform these complex scientific datasets into innovative software that is deployed across the pipeline, accelerating the pace and quality of all crop system development decisions to unbelievable levels.

What you will do is why you should join us:

• Be a critical senior member of a data engineering team focused on creating distributed analysis capabilities around a large variety of datasets;
• Take pride in software craftsmanship, apply a deep knowledge of algorithms and data structures to continuously improve and innovate;
• Work with other top-level talent solving a wide range of complex and unique challenges that have real world impact;
• Mentor and guide other engineers on areas of expertise;
• Explore relevant technology stacks to find the best fit for each dataset;
• Lead technical initiatives, communicating your technical vision and strategy to the broader organization;
• Project your talent into relevant projects. Strength of ideas trumps position on an org chart;
• Pursue opportunities to present our work at relevant technical conferences;
• This role will be Residence-Based in the US.
• Visa sponsorship may be offered for this role.

If you share our values, you should have:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience;
• Has shipped multiple generations of a software product, demonstrating long-term technical ownership and evolution;
• A track record of shipping and maintaining multiple major product releases written in Go;
• A track record of designing, building, and maintaining multiple product releases of data-intensive APIs using a RESTful approach;
• Extensive experience in system design and architecture for large-scale, distributed applications;
• Experience with stream processing using Apache Kafka;
• Experience with designing effective Unit Testing and Test Driven Development patterns;
• Familiarity with creating and maintaining containerized application deployments with a platform like Docker;
• Familiarity with developing and deploying to and working with Kubernetes cluster infrastructure;
• A proven ability to build and maintain cloud based infrastructure on a major cloud provider like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform;
• Experience data modeling for large scale databases, either relational or NoSQL;

Bonus points for:

• Experience with protocol buffers and gRPC;
• Experience with: Google Cloud Platform, Apache Beam and or Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Kubernetes Engine;
• Experience working with scientific datasets, or a background in the application of quantitative science to business problems;
• Bioinformatics experience, especially large scale storage and data mining of variant data, variant annotation, and genotype to phenotype correlation.

bayer offers a salary between $119,073 - $178,610. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Other benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. If selected for this role, the offer may vary based on market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans. Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s). Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.