Senior Software Engineer - Data

Be the key in unlocking business opportunities in the convergent world of Open Platform IP Video Management Systems! Join Milestone, the global market leader!

 Milestone seeks a Senior Software Engineer - Data to join our fast-moving, innovative VSaaS engineering team. In this role, you will architect, design, and build highly scalable distributed data systems to enable new and innovative solutions in cloud-based video surveillance and IoT control systems. To be successful, you will demonstrate experience and judgment in architecting, designing, and developing critical engineering systems. You will provide sound technical recommendations and dive into solving complex system and data design and implementation challenges. You will learn and share knowledge with the best and help us architect and build modern cloud-native data applications. You will meaningfully contribute to decisions on technology and processes to maximize our products' performance, scalability, and reliability.

 This fully remote role can be located anywhere in the US. 

 As a Milestone Employee, YOU are the key to our success. Come join our dynamic international team and be a part of our rapidly growing, successful business.

.Responsibilities 

• Work with product managers, technology teams, and engineering peers to understand and implement roadmap priorities and shape product features that address customers' needs.
• Employ advanced knowledge of common software design patterns focusing on microservice architecture. 
• Apply advanced knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and design.
• Articulate design and architecture trade-offs and apply software design patterns to solve complex engineering problems efficiently.
• Drive design and implementation based on sound engineering principles and best practices, focusing on testability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Provide overall project design and estimates that meet business and technology strategy needs during project scoping phases.
• Manage the velocity of delivery without compromising the quality of product releases.
• Embrace the “you build it, you run it” engineering principle.
• Champion good software engineering habits such as clean code principles, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and “going end-to-end early”.
• Own, diagnose, and resolve complex system technical issues and code defects.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to help establish the technical roadmap to facilitate innovation and enhancement of product capabilities.
• Provide leadership with a point of view on "what’s next" in technology, coding tools, applications, and concepts.
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and lifelong learning.
• Identify and work with SRE to implement automation opportunities to enhance efficiency in the software delivery cycle and the reliability of Milestone’s VSaaS product.. 

Professional Qualifications: 

• Minimum 5 years of software development experience with a distinguished track record of delivering complex data-rich enterprise services.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with programming in Go, C++, or an equivalent compiled language.
• Rich experience with multiple database technologies, including relational, graph, distributed columnar databases, and time series.
• Experience with real time data processing (Kafka, SQS, Google Pub/Sub, similar).
• Rich experience developing applications deployed on public cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Familiarity with testing methodologies and fully comfortable with TDD/BDD development practices.
• Strong understanding of modern CI/CD methodologies and Git-based workflows.
• Clear and persuasive written and oral communication skills required to collaborate with and persuade fellow engineers and non-technical audiences. 
• A breadth of technology and engineering skills, knowledge, and experience - comfortable with topics spanning programming languages, AI/ML, advanced networking, compute and data platforms, as well as automation and big data.

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