Developer III (Cloud) - Enterprise Core Platform, IS Core

Company Description

“We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business” -Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder

Global supply chain management is what we do, but at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics.

• 18,000 trained professionals
• 350+ locations worldwide across 60+ countries
• Fortune 500
• Globally unified systems

Job Description

This Developer role will be focused on technologies within our internal developer platform (or landing zone), called the Enterprise Core Platform.  They will play a key role in a cross-functional agile development team and will be responsible for the design, architecture, and implementation of various cloud native components. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, collaborative team player, and problem solver. 

Cloud-native systems are designed to thrive in a dynamic, virtualized cloud environment, these systems make extensive use of Platform as a Service (PaaS) compute infrastructure and managed services. This developer will be well versed in these technologies (particularly within Azure) and possess the skills to quickly adapt and learn new ones.  The Enterprise Core Platform is a young endeavor. It will require technologies and techniques that are new to many at Expeditors but available and proven in the wider technology domain.   

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, test, and implement components of the Enterprise Core Platform
• Design and develop cloud based micro-services to support the platform vision
• Provide flexible solutions emphasizing speed, scale, and agility
• Work with various development teams coaching them on Platform migrations and services
• Awareness of various cloud native technologies and the ability to apply them to this context
• Be a collaborative member of a highly motivated and very agile team
• Step out of traditional roles to help out wherever is needed – embrace the agile mindset
• Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to the technology when appropriate
• Participate in R&D initiatives to bring new tools to the Core Platform
• Support and participate in DevSecOps practices and processes

This position is on-site and will reside in the greater Seattle, WA. area at one of the following locations depending on availability. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.

• Downtown Seattle
• Federal Way
• Lynnwood
• Bellevue (Factoria)

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

​We are looking for talented people who are excited about what they do and who want to be part of a collaborative team. We realize that everyone comes with a unique collection of skills that often don't align perfectly with job postings. If you feel that you don't exactly fit the criteria below but would still be a good fit, please let us know!

• 5+ years in a software development or DevOps role in a team environment
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with:
  • Object oriented analysis and design
  • Diagramming and communicating with disparate audiences of technical and non-technical people
• Solid object-oriented language experience
• Knowledge of Kubernetes operators
• Experience managing applications and their Kubernetes environments
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline development, testing, integration and refinement
• Understanding of design for scalability, performance, security, and reliability
• Experience deploying and configuring applications on cloud infrastructure technologies
• Experience assessing organizational security needs and implementing strategies to mitigate them
• Declarative environment management with IaC (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation)
• Composition, packaging and deployment of containers, images, and Helm charts
• Willingness to forgo role boundaries and contribute where needed
• Customer service-oriented attitude and great time-management skills

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Supporting environments using Azure cloud infrastructure technologies
• Experience with Azure Key Vault and/or Hashicorp Vault
• Knowledge of the Kafka ecosystem
• Experience managing/administrating/maintaining Kubernetes ecosystems
• Experience administrating and provisioning databases in the cloud
• Knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, and dependency injection
• Knowledge of operating systems including Linux, preferable RHEL7+
• Scripting experience (especially shell, Python)
• Experience designing and implementi