Software Development Engineer

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At Medtronic, we contribute to human welfare and wellbeing through biomedical engineering. Everyday we’re involved in meaningful work to change people’s lives and health for the better. Now is your chance to join a talented team of engineers focused on providing Software Development pipelines and frameworks, Kubernetes and container services and technologies, full-stack observability as well as global source code and binary code services to our research scientist, medical device manufacturing, regulatory, IT, marketing, and sales teams across our company.

This position focuses on taking our current opensource base observability stack and extending and enhancing the design and implementation to better meet the observability, monitoring, and scalability demands of our diverse set of internal teams. These teams include our own software engineering team, who develops the DevSecOps framework, Kubernetes pipelines, and source code management systems, as well as our clients who use our framework and our containerized/Kubernetes pipelines. Our observability frameworks are built using open-source products, some commercial products, and AWS services. We are currently extending our capabilities to integrate serverless, microservices, and tracing capabilities into our core observability services.

A Day in the Life

• Be the owner and lead engineer for our end-to-end observability and monitoring service. Develop, refactor, research and improve its capabilities across our DevSecOps CI/CD pipeline, Kubernetes and source code management services.

• Enhance existing and develop new observability capabilities to create better and more robust services for our internal development teams as well as for our clients

• Proven track record designing, building, and implementing full-stack observability services using open-source tools and services including, but limited to, Grafana, CloudWatch/CloudWatch agents, Fluent-bit, OpenTelemetry Collector and Agent, Prometheus, Grafana Mimir/Loki/Tempo, etc.

• Work with team members on elements of the pipeline and add, refactor, and improve capabilities across our entire service being used by a diverse group of teams and divisions

• Show competency in working with diverse infrastructure and security teams to incorporate their requirements and design needs into the full-stack observability framework
• Be capable of interacting, consulting, and evangelizing the service with clients and helping them understand how best to leverage the observability stack into their services to meet business needs

• Have a strong history of rapidly and effectively leading focused spikes and sprints to evaluate, test, select, and incorporate rapid Proof-of-Concept (POC) solutions into the production service

· Be an integral member of the core DevSecOps/Shared Services development team and help develop, test, deploy, and operate our services 24x7x365 globally

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 1-3 years of related experience

OR

Associate degree and 4-7 years of related experience

OR

High School Diploma and 7+ years of related experience

Nice to have

• A degree in computer science or related field
• Experience as a full-stack software engineer shipping successful commercial products and/or services to customers using a SDLC process from start to finish
• Product development experience designing, developing, deploying, and operating observability frameworks using open-source and commercial tools and frameworks
• Demonstrated ability of designing, implementing, and operating observability and monitoring services in public cloud environments—AWS preferred

• Demonstrated ability using full-stack observability open-source and commercial tools including, but limited to, Grafana, CloudWatch/CloudWatch agents, Fluent-bit, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry Collector and Agent, Grafana Mimir/Loki/Tempo, etc.
• Experience using one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C, C++, Swift/Objective C, Python, Go, C#, or JavaScript.
• Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, highly concurrent programming, and software design patterns with instrumentation for observability
• Willing and able to learn new technologies at a rapid pace
• Communication skills to work with client partners in articulating the vision of automation, observability, monitoring, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes and how they can drive value for applications at Medtronic
• Familiarity enabling automation and application self-healing based on telemetry and events
• Experience working in a medical regulated environment considered a plus

About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.
Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

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