Location 360 Principal Data Eng

 

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

 

Location 360 Principal Data Eng 

 

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ‘Health for all, Hunger for none��� is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.  In Crop Science@Bayer, Data Engineers are responsible for building backend data services, pipelines, and platforms.  Our engineering teams in the Global Data Assets organization cover a broad range of domains relevant to agriculture, constructing reusable data APIs used to power our internal and external experiences.  The Principal Data Engineer will contribute to solution design and build, as well as drive definition and adoption of best practices across the organization.

 

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSBILITIES

 

The primary responsibilities of this role, Location360 Principal Data Engineer, are to:

• Drive design and development of organizational technical strategy;
• Author code to contribute new features to a codebase, evolve existing features and fix defects;
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and refine solution requirements;
• Provide thought leadership and be a trusted technical advisor to the business;
• Communication of technical principles, solutions and recommendations with business stakeholders, product managers, and other technical leaders;
• Review code contributions from team members to provide constructive and actionable feedback;
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers and other engineering teams across the organization to ensure a cohesive and coherent architecture;
• Work with leadership and teams to prospect for and evaluate impactful, purpose-fit technology to introduce to our problem-solving toolbelts;
• Work with teams to resolve conflicts which occur during the software development lifecycle;
• Mentoring of engineers and aiding their journey to become passionate experts in the craft of outstanding software;
• The preferred locations for this role are Creve Coeur, MO, or Whippany, NJ, however, we will also consider Residence-Based candidates in the US.
• Visa sponsorship may be offered for this role.

 

 

WHO YOU ARE

 

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

 

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related discipline;
• Deep knowledge of the Go programming language;
• Knowledge of key architectural patterns, such as microservices and event-driven architecture, with a deep understanding of their related trade-offs;
• A deep understanding of various API protocols such as gRPC, JSON over HTTP, and GraphQL along with design best practices and trade-offs;
• Experience with utilizing data formats and interface description languages such as Protobuf3;
• An understanding of containerized applications and their corresponding lifecycle;
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and concepts with direct experience deploying software using the Kubernetes control plane;
• Knowledge of best practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD);
• Familiarity with Observability concepts, such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and related tooling (eg, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc);
• Demonstrated experience as a productive reviewer of code, with an ability to coach others on the differentiation of style and correctness;
• Direct Experience with relational databases and declarative query languages such as SQL (eg, Oracle, Postgres, etc);
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases, their corresponding query languages and relevant data modeling techniques and des