Software Engineer IV, Viper Engineering

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• •BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
• •Minimum 8 years of experience building SaaS web applications using ASP.NET, C# and JavaScript and/or Python
• •Minimum 8 years of experience working with continuous integration and build tools
• •Expert in version control systems and branching/release strategies
• •Expert in software engineering tooling and mentors and drives adoption for new tools and tooling standards
• •Expert in release, builds, testing and the entirety of the SDLC
• •Expert at debugging distributed systems using distributed tracing and other common tools; able to lead root-cause analysis and preventative improvements
• •Top notch communication skills, including clearly communicating tradeoffs and aligning stakeholders
• •Experience architecting and designing systems from the ground up, including making pragmatic decisions for scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• •Experience working with a geographically dispersed team across multiple timezones, including leading technical alignment and delivery across teams
• •Minimum 8 years of experience building SaaS web applications using ASP.NET, C# and JavaScript and/or Python (12+ years desirable)
• •Strong experience maintaining and extending an existing codebase, adapting to pre-existing patterns and tracing the code's path of execution across services
• •Strong experience integrating 3rd-party APIs, implementing authentication & authorization and developing asynchronous data flows
• •Strong experience publishing and consuming Kafka events, including designing event contracts, building reliable event-driven workflows, and handling ordering, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery
• •Strong experience developing unit and integration-tests, and setting expectations for test strategy and coverage
• •Strong experience integrating with cloud service (AWS), specifically: SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, ElasticSearch, Docker / Containers
• •Strong experience working with Docker and Kubernetes, including containerization, orchestration (k8s) and serverless deployment scenarios
• •Strong experience with build & deployment automation (CI/CD) and release workflows
• •Strong SQL programming and data-layer development experience (schema design, query performance, indexing, and data reliability patterns)
• •Experience leading technical design and architecture decisions across multiple systems/services, and help establish standards, patterns, and best practices
• •Experience owning larger, complex initiatives end-to-end—from discovery and requirements through delivery and production support—driving alignment across engineering and business stakeholders
• •Experience conducting code reviews, developing high-quality documentation, and building robust test suites for your products (unit/integration testing), ensuring maintainable and well-covered code
• •Experience providing technical leadership through mentoring, coaching, and strong design/code review feedback, helping raise overall engineering quality
• •Experience developing roadmaps and prioritizing technical debt to effectively plan features and work, balancing delivery with long-term platform health
• •Experience driving operational maturity (observability, incident response, on-call practices, reliability goals) and leading post-incident analysis with preventative action plans
• •Experience handling multiple competing priorities in an agile, fast-paced environment while maintaining strong engineering discipline and delivery quality

Desired Qualifications

• •BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience preferred
• •12+ years desirable experience building SaaS web applications using ASP.NET, C# and JavaScript and/or Python
• •SQL Server preferred
• •Other relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL are also acceptable
• •Experience with modern .NET
• •Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• •Experience with SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, ElasticSearch, Docker / Containers
• •Experience with containerization, orchestration (k8s) and serverless deployment scenarios
• •Experience with build & deployment automation (CI/CD) and release workflows
• •Experience with schema design, query performance, indexing, and data reliability patterns
• •Experience with continuous integration and build tools
• •Experience with branching/release strategies
• •Experience with new tools and tooling standards
• •Experience with the entirety of the SDLC
• •Experience with distributed tracing and other common tools
• •Experience with root-cause analysis and preventative improvements
• •Experience with clearly communicating tradeoffs and aligning stakeholders
• •Experience with scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• •Experience with leading technical alignment and delivery across teams
• •Experience with timezones
• •Experience with leading technical design and architecture decisions across multiple systems/services
• •Experience with establishing standards, patterns, and best practices
• •Experience with developing custom software patterns as needed to solve highly complex software problems
• •Experience with clearly documenting tradeoffs and long-term maintenance implications
• •Experience with diagnosing production issues and driving improvements
• •Experience with observability, incident response, on-call practices, reliability goals
• •Experience with post-incident analysis with preventative action plans
• •Experience with handling multiple competing priorities in an agile, fast-paced environment
• •Experience with maintaining strong engineering discipline and delivery quality
• •Experience with performing additional duties as assigned