Staff Software Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: Not specified

Illumina is expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world-changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize the performance of large-scale distributed systems with security and compliance in mind.
• Build SaaS based commercial products to process and analyze terabytes of data.
• Own all aspects of implementation for features from design to development, deployment to production, and support and maintenance.
• Writing clean, performant, and well-tested code.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other operational issues in the cloud environment.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes.
• Experience with numerous aspects of DevOps, including source control, CI/CD, Kubernetes and containerized deployment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum of 8 years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting highly scalable applications
• Excellent Java development and debugging skills
• Deep understanding of data architecture, system design, and scalability challenges
• Proficient in building highly scalable services based on REST
• Experience with front end technologies and/or front-end frameworks.
• Knowledge of web libraries and frameworks such as Angular, React, Underscore
• Proficient in various data stores: SQL, NoSQL, and/or key-value store
• Experience with Cloud (AWS/Azure) based commercial systems.
• Experience with production-quality services, deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
• Demonstrated willingness to teach others and learn new technologies.

Application Instructions

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Company Information

• Illumina is expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world.
• Focuses on enabling life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health.