Staff Software Engineer

About the position

We are seeking a full-time Staff Software Engineer in our Olathe, KS location. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and guiding full system architecture to obtain company and product and/or application development objectives.

Responsibilities

• Designs and guides full system architecture development giving consideration to performance and functional requirements, reusability, scalability, extensibility and cost effectiveness.
• Conducts technical research and feasibility studies on new technologies, providing insight and recommendations to engineering management.
• Represents Garmin among industry partners, peer groups and regulating agencies.
• Contributes inventions, new designs, and techniques regarded as significant advances to the product and/or application development process.
• Applies advanced theories, principles, and concepts in development of new principles and theories.
• Utilizes knowledge of principles, forecasts new technology and provides business directions based on them.
• Participates in evaluation of proposed or ongoing projects/programs.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less experienced software engineers in areas such as software methodology, cost analysis, and project management.
• Supports working hours as part of a rotating schedule to provide on call support of Garmin's 24/7 operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Math, Physics or related field AND a minimum of 14 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule).
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrates a successful track record in managing exceedingly complex problems and providing success solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
• Demonstrated experience with architecting solutions for multiple groups and/or disciplines.
• Must possess relevant education and/or experience in software design, development and maintenance, as required for the successful performance of the essential functions of the position.
• Proven experience in application languages/frameworks such as Python, Java, C#, JavaScript.
• Experience in designing, developing, deploying, and scaling containerized applications (Kubernetes).
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes platform architecture & components.
• Proven experience with messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ, Kafka.
• Proven experience with data storage technologies such as RDBMS, No-SQL (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, etc.).
• Advanced knowledge of Linux operating system administration, networking, & shell scripting.
• Excellent judgment, discretion, and decision-making abilities.
• Team-oriented mindset, positive attitude, and working well with others.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience driving architectural, design, and technical aspects of business-critical cloud applications.
• Experience applying and promoting Agile/Lean principles to individual, team, and organizational process.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux kernel and operating system constructs.
• Advanced knowledge of computer networking standards (OSI), concepts, and related protocols (ethernet, IP, TCP, UDP, ARP, and DHCP).
• Experience in cloud infrastructures, tools, and related processes (Azure, AWS, GCP, OpenStack).
• Experience applying Infrastructure-as-Code such as Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Chef, Puppet.
• Experience with APM monitoring tools such as Zabbix, AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace.
• Experience with observability tools such as Kibana, Grafana, Splunk.
• Experience with automated testing tools and testing procedures.
• Experience with CI/CD practices, with demonstrated experience using Jenkins or other enabling technologies.
• Experience with DevOps-style tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, Nexus, RunDeck.