Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Operations

Intuit

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Work type
On-site
Location
Oakland, CA
Salary
$202,500–$274,000 / yr
Posted
47 days ago
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About Intuit

Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology

Intuit currently has 255 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Operations

As a Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Operations, you will join the Cloud Engineering team to serve as a technical leader focused on developing tooling and architectural patterns for reliable public cloud usage. You will drive solutions for compute platform architecture and reliability across IaaS and PaaS environments while translating application requirements into infrastructure capabilities. Your daily work involves maintaining an automation-centric vision using SRE methodologies to decrease toil and increase velocity. You will utilize technologies including Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Flux, Terraform, and CI/CD toolsets. Required skills include professional knowledge of Python, Go, and Linux production environments, alongside expertise in Configuration Management, IAM, WAF, TCP/IP, and HTTP. You will solve complex operational problems by architecting scalable infrastructure for modern web applications.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Develop and implement systems to provide a seamless, scalable public cloud platform.
  • Manage compute platform architecture and reliability for IaaS and PaaS environments.
  • Maintain core infrastructure tools including Configuration Management, IAM, WAF, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Manage public cloud environments like GCP and AWS using Kubernetes and container orchestration.
  • Translate application requirements from Engineering and Product teams into infrastructure capabilities.
  • Implement SRE methodologies and automation to increase system reliability and decrease manual toil.
  • Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to troubleshooting across the full stack.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in a web-centric Linux production environment building and architecting infrastructure to scale modern web applications.
  • Strong understanding of Computer Engineering focusing on Infrastructure, Platform, Application, Containerization, Network, and Database Architecture.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures.
  • Experience running Infrastructure at scale using Configuration Management and automation to ensure idempotency, ephemerality, and reliability.
  • Professional knowledge of Python, Go, or other higher-level OOP languages.
  • Professional experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD toolsets.
  • Familiarity with SRE methodologies and a passion for solving operational problems using automation and software.
  • Ability to communicate effectively vertically and horizontally within the organization via demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.

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