At GCI, we solve the hard problems. As a Software Engineer, a typical day will include the following
duties:
The Software Engineer will design, develop, code, test, and debug complex software products to be deployed in a mission critical environment. The ideal candidate is a hands-on developer with significant experience in scalable data platforms, cloud-based services, and big data analytics, and OpenSearch or Elasticsearch. They must have strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of data ingestion/computation technologies and the proven ability to fashion robust scalable solutions that can manage large data sets.
They must be at ease working in an agile environment with a cross-functional team. This person should embody a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.
- Work with a team to write new cloud-based applications and tools and recommend new technologies and methodologies to improve system performance and usability.
- Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy new software tools that extend or replace existing capabilities to parse raw data for analysis.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, analysts, project managers and other engineers and technical SMEs.
- Deploy new software into an AWS-based data ingest pipeline.
- Write software that interacts with multiple data types and stores data into S3 buckets that is queried by processes running Athena or OpenSearch.
- As an OpenSearch expert, drive the design of indexing strategies, query optimizations, and maintain overall architectural ownership of the OpenSearch data layer.
- Troubleshoot complex problems and provide support to mission areas for software systems and application issues.
- Maintain good documentation for new software written and new procedures to be followed.
- Work alongside other engineers on the team to sustain and advance our organization’s capabilities.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Python, Git, and unit testing frameworks.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with building APIs and services using REST.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with AWS CDK 1 and/or 2 or Terraform.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience applying object-oriented design principles and patterns to architect scalable, maintainable, and testable software systems in production environments.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and developing applications using core AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC