Staff Software Engineer

There are over 7 billion people on this planet. And by 2050, there will be 2 billion more... many moving into urban centers at an unprecedented rate. Making sure there is enough food, fiber and infrastructure for our rapidly growing world is what we're all about at John Deere. And it's why we're investing in our people and our technology like never before! Here the world's brightest minds are tackling the world's biggest challenges. If you believe one person can make the world a better place, we'll put you to work. RIGHT NOW. ##### John Deere is an equal opportunity employer, including disabled & veterans. Primary Location: United States (US) - Iowa - Urbandale Function: Technology (CA) Title: Staff Software Engineer - 122477 Onsite/Remote:Onsite Position ## Your Responsibilities This position is eligible for a flexible work location arrangement. The arrangement may be delayed for training or other job acclimation purposes and employee must be in driving distance to Urbandale, Iowa or Moline, IL. Any work location arrangement is based on the needs of the business and is subject to change. As a Staff Software Engineer for John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group located in Urbandale, IA or Moline, IL, you will work on transforming the Operations Center product into a multi-region system in order to increase reliability and sustainability for our agriculture and construction customers. This new team will be defining the methods and standards that will be rolled out to the ISG Digital organization and driving our multi-region strategy. * Your responsibilities will include: * Designing, documenting, and validating multi-region active/active architectures and patterns to support disaster recovery efforts. * Partnering with application owners, platform teams, SRE, security, and business stakeholders to translate business impact into recoverable architectures and tested playbooks. VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position ## What Skills You Need * 5 or more years of experience with many programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, Go, or similar languages. * 3 or more years of experience with building and managing applications and infrastructure in AWS with Terraform or CloudFormation. * 3 or more years of experience providing technical leadership and coordination across multiple teams to deliver production software systems * 2 or more years of experience with Continuous Integration and/or build pipeline automation ## What Makes You Stand Out * Strong communications skills: Experience working with cross-functional teams, and ability to translate business impact into technical recovery objectives and solutions. * Experience with testing and SRE practices: fault tolerance testing, chaos engineering, SLO/SLO/error budget familiarity. * Experience leveraging multi-region AWS services (RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, S3, etc.) * Experience in with developer container platform architectures and tools such as Kubernetes, EKS, and Docker. * Experience with eventually consistent data architecture patterns, and implications for multi-AZ and multi-region deployments. * Advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, MIS, or other IT related discipline ## Education Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following: * Bachelors degree in either Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, MIS, or other IT related discipline What You'll Get At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including: * Flexible work arrangements *...