Senior Software Engineer

Job Number: 34919

Position Title: Senior Software Engineer

External Description:

Senior Software Engineer, Core Technology Group (Data Engine) 

Our Company

Everything Informatica does begins and ends with data. Simply stated, we make great data – data that is connected, clean and safe -- ready to use so that all enterprises can be data ready and put their unique information potential to work. A data-ready enterprise is decision-ready, customer-ready, application-ready, cloud-ready, and regulation-ready. And by design, our Intelligent Data Platform delivers great data to enable our customers to be ready for anything. 

Our Team

Cloud Data Integration is the innovation hub within Informatica that is responsible for delivering an extensible, reliable and scalable platform that provides the solid foundation for all other Informatica products. Our team specifically has the following responsibilities:

• Converting user-created Big Data tasks into Spark Jobs
• Optimizing these Spark jobs for best performance
• Adding and modifying to the open-source spark code to serve Informatica use cases.
• Reducing latency and processing time of Spark jobs to return instantaneous results
• Delivering large data sets to client applications with extremely high throughput
• Cross compiler to translate representation of a data flow plan from one engine to Spark
• Deliver a highly scalable, performance-optimized infrastructure (both compute and storage) that elastically handles customer needs.
• Executing and monitoring Spark jobs and clusters for high performance and low TCO. 

Your Opportunity

Informatica Data Platform has been a key constituent of Informatica’s platform and serves multiple products such as Data Services, Data Quality and Profiling. Informatica products rely on the Data Engine to fulfill the vision of a Virtual Data Machine which is capable of executing data integration jobs either natively or across execution environments such as Spark on Kubernetes, Spark on Yarn, Cloud DW. You will be a key contributor to Informatica’s next-generation platform and how it handles the volume, velocity, and variety of structured and unstructured data. It could be enterprise and partner data from hosted Cloud services and on-premise deployments or arbitrary data from social websites and media. 

Our Ideal Candidate

You are an experienced software engineer who has worked on developing query optimizers, large-scale data management, or database products. You relish the opportunity to work on building optimizations that improve data processing performance across different use cases that include batch, request/response, and real-time systems. 

Your Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be based in Redwood City, CA, and will be responsible for:

• Working with senior members of the team to ensure the sound design and implementation of functional areas for the product
• Working closely with architects and developers and QA engineers to discuss and evangelize features
• Collaborating with geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams in an Agile environment
• Participating in internal/cross-team meetings, scoping, decision making, and technical documentation. 

Representative accountabilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Designing, implementing, documenting, analyzing, and operationalizing platform features clearly to ensure that others may readily utilize them
• Interacting with QA and documentation teams to clearly communicate the features and behaviors of the system
• Reviewing functional and test specifications and conducting training sessions for global services and support teams
• Assisting customers and field engineers with troubleshooting issues and problems. 

Your Qualifications

• 4 or more years of relevant professional experience, a portion of which was within an enterprise software company
• Demonstrated ability to write quality code in Java, Scala.
• Familiar with big data technologies like Spark, Hive.
• Familiar with cloud software concepts with experience in working with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus.
• Proven ability to work well with others in a fast-paced, iterative product definition and development environment
• Ability to communicate and express thoughts and ideas in a big group
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills within an organization
• Able to work independently with little direct supervision and take initiative; willing to mentor and develop others
• Promote and apply engineering best-practices including code reviews, design/architecture reviews, unit testing code coverage review
• Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills
• BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred 

City: Redwood City

State: California

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

Travel Requirement: Limited

Location_formattedLocationLong: Redwood City, California US