Software Observability Engineer III

Are you passionate about building internet-scale multi-tenant cloud native data platforms? Do you have prior experience in building data platform / data lake, analytics SaaS services, and supporting infrastructure in public cloud with expertise in modern Big Data stack (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Hive ..), Java and/or Scala. Come join our Data platform and Analytics team. This team owns, builds, and operates Guidewire’s cloud native data platform and analytics SaaS offerings. Guidewire data platform is an enterprise-grade, internet-scale, and cloud-native Big Data platform targeted to be best-in-class in enabling our customers with mission critical insights and decision-making capabilities. The platform is designed to support all of our analytics, data science, and data applications. Guidewire’s data platform already processes Billions of real-time data to provide a rich set of AI/ML SaaS solutions! You will work in a highly collaborative environment building next-generation platforms and services using the latest and greatest cutting-edge & bleeding-edge technologies. You will have fun building cloud-native, enterprise-grade, and internet-scale platforms and SaaS applications

Required Skills

• Extensive experience with Big Data and distributed systems
• Ability to design large scale distributed systems
• Prior experience in building observability and proactive monitoring on public cloud
• Prior experience with logging and metric processor and forwarder technologies.
• Prior experience with AWS (CloudFormation, CloudWatch, EC2, ECS, EKS, ELB, Fargate, IAM, Route53, S3, Metricstream)
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles (consistency and availability, liveness and safety, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms)
• Deep understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Performance Optimization Techniques
• Eager to learn new things and passionate about technology!
• Comfortable working with Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, and Terraform

What you would do

• Design, develop and run cloud-native data platform and analytics SaaS services
• Own architecture and provide technical leadership to multiple teams
• Hands-on coding>60% of the time
• Design and build large scale real-time stream processing systems
• Design, develop and run micro-services and analytics SaaS solutions
• Own Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) for your services
• Own scalability, availability, and data security for your services
• Own, tackle & resolve code defects
• Mentor junior developers in standards and best practices!

What you would need to succeed

• Prior experience and passion for building large scale multi-tenant cloud-native data platform
• Emphasize team wins over individual success
• Strong technical interpersonal skills
• Excellent software development skills with experience in one or more of the following technologies: Fluent Bit, Terraform, Cloud Formation
• Extensive experience with Big Data and distributed systems.
• Ability to design large scale distributed systems
• Have developed in more than one language and ready to pivot to any language/framework
• Understand microservices architecture patterns pattern like Service Discovery/API Gateway/Domain Driven Design etc
• Experience with containers technology
• Ability to work in an agile fast-paced environment
• BS or MS degree (Computer Science or Math)
• 5+ years of required work experience

Nice to have

• Prior experience in building data platforms using Big Data stack (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Hive ..) on public cloud
• Excellent programming skills in Java
• Solid understanding of redshift or similar petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud
• Experience with stream processing using Spark or Flink
• AWS (Athena, EMR, Glue, Kinesis..)
• ELK, Datadog
• Experience of building SaaS/PaaS on AWS/GCP/Azure..
• AI/ML

About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 500 insurers in 38 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
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