Senior Software Engineer

Company: Tableau Software
Location: Kirkland
Posted on: June 24, 2020

Job Description:

Job CategoryProducts and TechnologyJob DetailsAs a member of the Engineering Services Reliability team, you will be using your software development skills to design and build systems and services to modernize our engineering infrastructure to make the product development experience at Tableau the best in the industry. You will help us build the future for our Continuous Integration and Code Management experiences and work cross-team to implement them. If you love decoding complex systems, designing intuitive service interfaces, and exploring innovative ways to improve developer experience and optimize engineering operations, you will feel right at home.

You will be leverage your creativity and experience to create new features and services that satisfy customer needs and extend their ability to see and understand their data.

What you'll be doing...

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• Design, implement, and own well running, supportable services.
• Collaborate with Tableau's product development teams to understand and aid our customers.
• Create maintainable, well tested services and tooling using languages such as Python, Java, and Go.
• Establish development and design patterns that enable the next generation of service infrastructure.
• Support an ecosystem of continuous integration and delivery pipeline tooling, through integration and automation.
• Manage, create and integrate a wide-range of tools and services designed to speed-up and facilitating the development experience.
• Monitor the health, reliability and performance of Tableau's Engineering Services, detecting issues quickly and driving quality improvement over time.
• Review and provide detailed feedback on documentation and test plans for features.
  
  Who you are...
  
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  • Technical. You have strong software design and implementation skills, and you have a knack for abstracting 'hairy' problems behind simple interfaces. You are comfortable in different languages and environments.
  • Big Thinker. You can see the big picture, think at scale, and are willing to make bold choices.---You think big and fail fast.
  • A True Team Player. You enjoy collaborating, learning from your colleagues, teaching, and working through others to get things done.
  • Motivated to Learn. You have an insatiable curiosity and have a need to understand exactly how things work.
  • Customer-focused. You work to understand developer needs and work backwards from there to achieve goals.
  • Care Deeply about Software Quality. You are passionate about designing and building solid Continuous Integration, Code Management, Build, and Test tools that allow developers to produce and test high quality code. You believe in automation and writing tests for your own code as a way of maintaining high quality in product and services.
  • DevOps Mindset. You are familiar with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts. You treat operational issues as if they are software problems. You view software as a primary tool to manage, maintain, fix, and extend systems required to support large development environments. You promote operational excellence!
  • Automator. You leverage automation, monitoring, and data analysis to ensure operational excellence for our internal services and infrastructure.
  • Builder and Integrator. You have a track record of building things when you need to, picking the right existing tools, and elegantly integrating them.
  • Broad Platform Experience. You have strong skills or interest in creating systems to run on multiple platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux), on-premises and in AWS, and a variety of database platforms.
  • Problem Solver. You love tackling the most difficult challenges and know how to get to the best solution.
  • You are a Recruiter! Tableau hires company builders and, in this role, you will be asked to be on the constant lookout for the best talent to bring onboard to help us continue to build one of the best companies in the world!
    
    Education/Experience:
    
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    • B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent
    • 5+ years of professional software development experience (Java, Python, or C++)
      
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