Guidewire Software is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Data platform and Analytics team member at Guidewire. The role involves designing, developing, and operating cloud-native data platforms and analytics SaaS services. The ideal candidate has experience with Java, Big Data/distributed systems, Spark or Flink, Kafka, Hadoop, AWS, Docker, and Terraform.

Requirements

• Excellent experience with Java, Gradle, Team City & Docker
• Extensive experience with Big Data / distributed systems
• Hands on mentoring experience
• Experience with stream processing using Spark or Flink
• Prior experience of building data platforms using Big Data stack (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Hive ..) on public cloud
• Strong experience with migrating to redshift
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles (consistency and availability, liveness and safety, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms)
• System design skills. Ability to design large scale distributed systems
• Deep understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Performance Optimization Techniques
• Eager to learn new things and passionate about technology
• Comfortable working with Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, and Terraform
• BS or MS degree (Computer Science or Math)
• 8+ years relevant work experience

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and run cloud native data platform and analytics SaaS services
• Design and build large scale real-time stream processing systems
• Design, develop and run micro-services and analytics SaaS solutions
• Do test driven unit and end to end testing of any code you develop
• Own Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) for your services
• Own scalability, availability and data security for your services
• Own, troubleshoot & resolve code defects
• Mentor other developers in best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Kotlin
• AWS (EMR, S3, Glue, Kinesis..)
• ELK
• Experience of building SaaS/PaaS on AWS/GCP/Azure
• AI/ML