Software Developer

Company: Computer Resource Solutions
Location: Urbandale
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

This position is for a software developer interested in exploring a system approach to software development, enabling development teams to improve performance and reliability through monitoring and observability. The role is on the Systems team within Data, Applications, and Analytics (DAA) at ISG in Urbandale, Iowa. The developer will collaborate with development teams within DAA and across ISG, with operations engineers, and with SREs. Custom application and tools will be developed for developers and automated testers. Examples of the work: operate a centralized observability platform supporting multiple development teams; collaborate with teams to instrument their applications for logging, metrics, and tracing, including programming their code directly; working with Developer Enablement to standardize templates and frameworks for use by teams; building custom applications to close capability or opportunity gaps in the systems space.Required:

• Experience in software analysis, design, and implementation in multiple languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript/NodeJS, Python)
• Effective problem-solving skills which include ability to debug and develop in many, changing programming languages and technologies
• Experience demonstrating communication skills needed to support and consult with internal software developers of off-the-shelf and custom tools
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, especially Amazon Web Service (AWS), and Infrastructure as Code concepts
• Ability and willingness to support daytime on-call rotation for internal applications (approximately one week per month)What Makes You Stand Out:
  • Experience with Extreme Programming (XP) technical practices - test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration (CI), pairing
  • Experience with logging, metrics, and observability frameworks and tools (e.g., Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Jaeger/Zipkin, Micrometer, Influx)
  • Knowledge of Continuous Integration tool configuration and operation (especially Drone)
  • Cloud development, release strategies, and stacks (e.g., Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS: ECS, EKS)
  • Familiarity with additional programming languages (particularly GoLang and Scala)Due to COVID-19, this position will start as remote work transitioning to in-office work when restrictions are removed. - provided by Dice

Keywords: Computer Resource Solutions, Des Moines , Software Developer, IT / Software / Systems , Urbandale, Iowa