Sr Staff Data Engineer
Bayer
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About the Role
At Bayer we're visionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all, Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We're doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining 'impossible'. There are so many reasons to join us. If you're hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there's only one choice. In Crop Science@Bayer, Data Engineers are responsible for building backend data services, pipelines, and platforms. Our engineering teams in the Global Data Assets organization cover a broad range of domains relevant to agriculture, constructing reusable data APIs and analytics solutions used to power our internal and external experiences. The Senior Staff Data Engineer will contribute to solution design and build, while helping to define and drive best practices within the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive system design discussions and software development within our engineering teams
- Promote software design best practices
- Author code to contribute new features to a codebase, evolve existing features and fix defects
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and refine solution requirements
- Provide thought leadership and be a trusted technical advisor to the business
- Communicate technical principles, solutions and recommendations with business stakeholders, product managers, and other technical leaders
- Review code contributions from team members to provide constructive and actionable feedback
- Collaborate with Principal Engineers and other engineering teams across the organization to ensure a cohesive and coherent architecture
- Work with leadership and team to prospect for and evaluate impactful, purpose-fit technology to introduce to our problem-solving toolbelts
- Mentoring of engineers and aiding their journey to become passionate experts in the craft of outstanding software
Requirements
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related discipline
- Demonstrated experience with programming languages such as Python or Go
- Deep knowledge and demonstrated experience with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform
- Knowledge of key architectural patterns, such as microservices and event-driven architecture, with a deep understanding of their related trade-offs
- Knowledge of best practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
- Familiarity with data architecture and modeling concepts and paradigms
- Familiarity with Observability concepts, such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and related tooling (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience as a productive reviewer of code, with an ability to coach others on the differentiation of style and correctness
- Demonstrated experience with relational databases and declarative query languages such as SQL (e.g., Oracle, Postgres, etc.)
- Experience with the git version control system and related tools such as GitHub or GitLab
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
- Familiarity with the publish/subscribe models and supporting technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka, Google Pubsub, AWS SNS/SQS, etc.)
Nice to Have
- At least 7 years of demonstrated experience with programming languages such as Python or Go
- At least 5 years of demonstrated experience with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and concepts with direct experience deploying software using the Kubernetes control plane
- A demonstrated understanding of Machine Learning and Generative AI concepts
- Knowledge of the agricultural domain
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related discipline
Benefits & Perks
- Salary between $136,929 to $205,394
- Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission
- Benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.
Working at Bayer
Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s). Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans and an E-Verify Employer. The company values energy, curiosity, dedication, continuous learning, and diverse perspectives, fostering a community of brilliant minds working towards impactful solutions.
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bayer.com
Company Size
10000+ employees
Location
Creve Coeur, MO
Industry
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