Staff Engineer, Software Development Engineering (Apps)

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that. Our technology helped people put a man on the moon.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest growth organizations in the world. From energizing the most competitive gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Binge-watch any shows, use social media or shop online lately? You’ll find Western Digital supporting the storage infrastructure behind many of these platforms. And, that flash memory card that captures and preserves your most precious moments? That’s us, too.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices and platforms for business and consumers alike. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

Job Description

We’re looking for a talented and passionate engineer to join our team. You will be part of the team who is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining company internal software tools, used to process, analyze, and visualize hard disk drive's development, production line and field data. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and maintain software applications, Customized Data Decoders (ETL: Extraction, Transformation, Loading), web-based data analytics & visualization applications and machine learning models for machine-generated data sets.
• Build scalable, distributed, highly available data pipeline / infrastructure. 
• Work with relational and non-relational databases to store and retrieve data from different software applications.
• Work with technology and product teams to develop analysis tools and machine learning models.  
• Train, retrain, and monitor machine learning systems and models as needed and build data systems and pipelines to feed the machine learning models.
• Participate in code reviews and architectural technical discussions.
• Create and maintain detailed engineering documentation, application specifications and internal user guides.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work collaboratively in a global, fast-paced, lean-agile team environment.

Qualifications

Qualifications / Skills: 

• BS or MS degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Experience: BS with 5+ yrs. experience · MS with 3+ yrs. experience
• Proficiency working with C/C++, Python (Jupyter), R, Elasticsearch, Non-Relational DBs: MongoDB / Cassandra, Relational DBs: MySQL, SingleStore, Presto and Docker containers. 
• Experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, Perl, Node.js, Javascript, Jenkins / Spinnaker, Artifactory, RESTful APIs building machine learning systems is a plus.
• Experience with source control such as GIT / BitBucket, SVN and Atlassian toolchain such as Jira, Confluence 

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it