Senior Product Engineer - Geodatabase

Summary

Join Esri's Geodatabase development team and contribute to cutting-edge data management software. As a Product Engineer, you will collaborate with engineers to design, develop, certify, and release innovative software capabilities. You will contribute to quality assurance and customer education by implementing and documenting solutions to complex spatial data problems. Responsibilities include engaging with product management and user communities, collaborating with software engineers, driving the planning and release of ArcGIS data management functionality, and defining documentation objectives. You will also communicate plans, identify opportunities for technological integration, and drive the development process. This role requires strong GIS and database expertise, experience with ArcGIS software, and excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and/or implementing solutions using ArcGIS software
• Experience using an application development language, such as C#, Java, C++, or Python
• Strong DBMS expertise in a commercial RDBMS
• Effective time management and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills at the technical and management level
• Excellent problem-solving and creative thinking skills
• A self-motivated team player with an interest in continuous learning and the ability to guide staff towards excellence
• Bachelor’s in geography, GIS, computer science, engineering, or related fields

Responsibilities

• Engage with Esri product management and our user communities to synthesize user requirements and industry needs into development objectives
• Collaborate with software engineers, product engineers, and other stakeholders to build and test ArcGIS functionality related to data management for enterprise geodatabases and data management services such as utility network, feature service, network diagram, version management, geodata, and WFS
• Drive the planning, design, quality assurance, certification and release of ArcGIS data management functionality
• Define documentation objectives for communicating sophisticated technology to our user community
• Communicate plans and status to internal stakeholders and senior management
• Identify opportunities to integrate new technologies and patterns with our existing software
• Drive the development process, including release planning, iteration planning, daily stand-ups, iteration reviews and retrospectives
• Assess product quality and release readiness

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of the Agile software development life cycle
• Experience using web technologies such as JSON, REST, or JavaScript
• Experience developing and implementing test plans
• Experience developing and executing automated, functional, regression, and performance tests
• Knowledge of a source control and issue management system
• Familiarity with system and web server administration
• Comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously
• Master’s in geography, GIS, computer science, engineering, or related fields

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families)
• 401(k) and profit-sharing programs
• Minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave
• Twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth