Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Come join Intuit’s PDX team as a Senior Software Developer focused on the Intuit Build Platform (IBP), GitHub and Artifactory. This team serves as the backbone for continuous integration (CI) across all of Intuit's flagship products, including QuickBooks, TurboTax, Credit Karma, and MailChimp. As an integral part of Intuit's cutting-edge Development Experience, you will empower developers to swiftly create and deploy new microservices. You will work on the latest of Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Cloud, and next-gen CI as applied to scalable distributed systems. If you are passionate about system design and architecture, data-driven decision making, automation, open-source software, cloud-native applications, and container orchestration, this job is for you! Discover what it’s like to be part of a fast-paced team dealing with challenging engineering problems where self-motivated engineers can do the best work of their life.

Responsibilities

• Lead, drive, and participate in the design, automation, security, and support aspects of the current and future CI Platform at Intuit.
• Develop automation for always-on services and infrastructure leveraging AWS and advanced concepts such as containerization, Kubernetes, and highly available architectures.
• Flexible and innovative to apply knowledge and experience to recommend custom solutions to business problems. Decisions will have enterprise-wide impact.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex technical issues.
• Drive continuous improvement with a focus on availability, usability, reusability, performance, maintainability, and cost.
• Provide support for end users, application, and administration teams, including critical incidents and on-call support.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience developing infrastructure software or similar experience.
• BS/MS in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• Deep AWS knowledge and experience. Proficiency in Kubernetes and containerization.
• Work experience in two or more of: Unix/Linux, Distributed Systems, AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/Container platforms-based software development.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Wavefront, CloudWatch.
• Strong experience with any of the following Object-Oriented Languages: Python, Java/J2EE, C#, Go, or similar language.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large-scale infrastructure software.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to work with multi-functional groups.
• Team player with the ability to be successful in a fast-paced environment.

• Preferred Experience:

• Familiarity with managing Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Familiar with the development challenges inherent with highly scalable and available infrastructure software.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in relevant tech communities.
• Knowledge of security best practices for cloud-based applications and infrastructure.