Staff Software Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Architecture: You will lead and be a trusted technical advisor to solve complex Cloud Infrastructure; DataBase and Development Operations challenges. Provide guidance to engineers who work on complex technical matters and designs impacting all the domains under Careem. You will keep raising the technical bar at Careem. You will be coaching and advising teammates on the selection of methodologies, tools and technologies.
• Design: Ensure end-to-end architecture design according to best practices, compliance, regulation and privacy. Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders.
• Technical vision : You will oversee the technical vision and co-lead the infrastructure roadmap to deliver competitive value from Data and enable a simple user experience.
• Supporting and growing the Infrastructure teams : Support a highly scalable, easy to maintain, Infrastructure platforms and design for users and content 360. Support the Engineering, Infrastructure, Data & AI and Analytics team.
• Uber-Careem : You will actively engage with Uber and build perspective on Build Vs Buy Vs Adopt strategies. For key technologies that will be adopted from Uber, you will drive end to end, working closely with your peers and stakeholders at Careem.
• Careem-wide Tech Leadership : You will work with different stakeholders at a senior level and engage proactively with all Careem engineering leads in different domains: Mobility of People, Mobility of Things, Super App Platform, and Careem Pay.
• Tech culture : You will help strengthen the tech culture at Careem as a tech culture champion. And you will help attract talent and grow the Careem engineering brand by publishing technical blogs and participating in tech conferences.

Key Experiences To Have

• Experience in traditional Cloud, database and network technologies
• Experience in AWS solutions, (Google Cloud or Cloud providers)
• Cloud best practices and data governance.
• Database accessibility and security.
• CI/CD and testing approaches and best practices.
• Performance optimization and automation.
• Logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Exposure to reporting & visualization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of experience managing customer/client-facing consulting projects to completion and handling technical troubleshooting.
• Experience in writing one or more coding languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, etc).
• Experience in designing and maintaining internet facing production-grade applications in distributed virtualized or containerized environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master or Phd degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline.
• Experience with AWS, EKS, Kubernetes and managed environments and cloud native technologies on major global Cloud platforms.
• Experience with Cloud networking, including the integration to other environments.
• Experience with scalable networking technologies (e.g., as Load Balancers, Firewalls) and web standards (e.g., REST APIs, gRPC, web security mechanisms).
• Experience with deployment and orchestration technologies (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Docker, Mesos, OpenStack, Jenkins).
• Experience in system administration tasks in Linux, Unix, or Windows with familiarity with standard IT security practices (e.g., encryption, certificates, key management).
• Understanding of open source server software (e.g., NGINX, Envoy, Redis, Elasticsearch).