Senior Cloud Engineer

Company Overview

Sleep Number is a sleep wellness technology leader. For nearly four decades, we have placed sleep at the center of wellbeing, improving over 15 million lives with our Sleep Number smart beds. We are guided by our purpose – to improve the health and wellbeing of society through higher quality sleep. This is exemplified through our 4,000+ mission-driven team members who passionately innovate to drive value creation through our vertically integrated business model, owning the process from start to finish, including selling in our over 650 stores nationwide.

Our team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work, sharing their unique perspectives, backgrounds and skills with Sleep Number every day. Whether you are entering, returning or experienced in the workforce, we have a place for you. We hope you join us in creating the future through higher quality sleep.

Position Purpose

The Senior Cloud Engineer will be the hands-on team lead responsible for building and supporting algorithm and application logic for the SN LABS product platform.  In this role, the position will be responsible for development and support of multi-tiered systems that captures data 24 hours a day supporting millions of devices, makes data accessible at scale via APIs and front-end web systems, and leverage established tools to automate the operation and maintenance of such systems with high levels of performance and availability. The ideal candidate will have experience focused on the following AWS managed services, coupled with Micro-services (ECS Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS, S3, Lambdas,SQS)

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement algorithms for testing features and functionalities related to sleep, health and wellness.
• Define and devise processes, tools and methodologies to achieve excellence in software development, testing and deployment
• Perform data analysis, algorithm validation, and performance evaluation.
• Build analytics dashboards and data/algorithm simulation frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineering and research teams to improve algorithms and to support advanced features.
• Determine impact of architectural solutions and recommendations
• Work closely with device and back-end software engineering teams to ensure successful implementation and deployment of algorithms

Performance Indicators

• Documented software, data analytics, or advanced research contributions to products
• Contributions to the accomplishment of quarterly milestones
• Highly effective at working in cross-functional groups and getting results in matrix organizations

Position Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Preferred 7+ years of overall industry experience with at least 3+ years of software development experience with latest 2 years in cloud development
• Strong expertise and experience in JDBC and data-oriented development
• Experience in Internet of Things (IoT) architecture is preferable
• Experience in developing distributed cloud applications and systems using Java and Scala preferably on AWS
• Strong experience with Java, AWS EC2, EMR, RDBMS, Cassandra or any other NoSQL DB
• In-depth experience in data and application modeling
• Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
• OOPS 
• Design Patterns
• Dependency Injection
• Network concepts (TCP, UDP, Ports, Proxy, Firewalls)
• Junit (or other unit testing framework)
• Application server/container configuration management and application deployment (Tomcat , Jboss etc)
• Distributed Patterns (Caching, Transactions,Message queues, Partitioning, Sharding) 
• Scaling Application under load (Partitioning, Sharding) 
• Persistence with Relational Database (SQL and JDBC) and Non Relational Database (Redis, Cassandra etc)
• Experience with Build Tools (Jenkins , Dockers ) , version control (Git) and dependency management (Maven or Gradle)
• Experience with Production and Performance Troubleshooting Tools (ELK , Splunk, Sumologic , Wireshark, jConsole, HeapAnalyzer, jMeter, Java profiler (VisualVM, JProfiler, YourKit))

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
• Demonstrated ability to mentor to maintain architectural vision and software quality
• Possess strong analytical skills, with excellent problem-solving abilities in the face of ambiguity
• Demonstrated understanding of high scale cloud architecture
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