Principal Application Engineer (SRE)
About This Role
Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
Job Description
At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.
As a Principal Application Reliability Engineer, you'll tap into your passion for finding and fixing inefficiencies to solve our reliability and performance issues. In our Agile environment, you'll focus on availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change and problem management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning of our services. Your projects will deliver enhanced infrastructure, development, and deployment automation at Discover.
Responsibilities
- Creates solutions addressing high impact technology and business priorities
- Competent in multiple contexts, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains and is the go-to person for many people (inside and outside of their team)
- Participates in strategic technology decisions and learns how these decisions impact Discover as a whole
- Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains
- Coaches technology communities at Discover
- Supports and maintains software installations and hardware systems - lifecycle management, change management, request management and incident management.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:
- Bachelors - Computer Science or related
- 6+ Years -- Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
- Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:
- Unix and Bash scripting knowledge
- Experience with performance engineering (JVM internal)
- Coding experience with Python or Java
- Experience in production support
- Proficient in monitoring, alerting, analyzing and troubleshooting large scale distributed systems
- Good understanding of defining and executing High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Sustained Resiliency, Chaos Engineering tests
- Experience in DevOps skills and methodologies - creating and managing a continuous build, integration, test, and deployment systems
- Experience with experience with Openshift Container Platform, RabbitMQ, Kafka, HBase, Spark, Jenkins, Java, Unix, PCF, Big Data ecosystem, Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, Gemfire, Postgresql, Redis #LI-BG1 #Remote #BI-Remote
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants - with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law) . We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.