Staff Engineer

Company: Pluralsight
Location: Fayetteville
Posted on: June 6, 2021

Job Description:

Location: Remote - Utah Job Description:JOB DESCRIPTIONAbout PluralsightFounded in 2004 and trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Pluralsight is the technology skills platform organizations and individuals in 150+ countries count on to innovate faster and create progress for the world.Working at PluralsightAt Pluralsight, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to create progress through technology. That everyone should have access to the skills of tomorrow. That technology can make the world a better place. Through the work we do every day, we empower the people who power our world.And we don't let fear, egos or drama distract us from our mission. We're adults, and we treat each other that way. We have the autonomy to do our jobs, transparency to eliminate office politics and trust in each other to do the right thing. We thrive in an environment with creativity around every corner, challenges that keep us on our toes, and peers who inspire us to be the best we can be. We bring different viewpoints, backgrounds and experiences, and united by our mission to democratize technology skills, we are one.The OpportunityAs a Staff Engineer you will partner with the software engineers of one or more teams to create technical solutions to complex problems involving architecture, strategy, collaboration, and data. This is a senior software engineering role that will work as an embedded engineer with one or more cross-functional product engineering teams. While engineering leadership is an important part of the role, it will not manage other engineers. You will work as an engineer with the other engineers to powerfully move forward the development, application architecture, and strategy of systems critical to Pluralsight priorities. This role will focus on the production, processing, and handling of diverse real-time streams of data. Advancing the state of the art for stream processing will help the Flow team leap forward in product capabilities.Who you are: You have an inspirational leadership style that helps others want to learn from your experience, collaborate with you, and follow your lead to achieve results.You value the contributions of those around you and while you regularly provide valuable engineering leadership, you also embrace opportunities to let other team members lead and make decisions.You are passionate about solving complex architectural, system, and collaboration problems that tend to involve more than just a single codebase and you love collaborating with other teams to create cross-team solutions.You love working across multiple technologies and learning about industry trends and effective practices.You collaborate and decide on solutions with your team rather than dictate solutions to them. You prefer to use leadership and persuasion, rather than title and authority, to inspire and lead others.You value finding that ideal solution that balances the technical needs of the system with the strategic needs of the business. You feel a pragmatic urgency around delivering value to customers and see how engineering excellence unlocks our ability to deliver. Delivering to customers energizes you and your drive inspires those around you.You are a real-time data stream aficionado. You are passionate about how data, and particularly real-time processing of data, can create new, rich experiences for our customers. What you'll own: You'll work as an engineer and be responsible for the development and stewardship of the bounded contexts and systems owned by your assigned team(s).You will develop a solid understanding of how the systems you own work with other bounded contexts and the overall system architecture.You will help your teams collaborate and responsibly respond to the needs of other teams and the overall system.You will help research and identify better ways to solve problems including the identification and use of industry trends, improving application architecture and improving ways of working.You will work with other leaders and Product Managers in your area of the business to discover, plan and strategize around the most impactful work to be done.You will help leaders, Product Managers, and teams prioritize work in order to increase the flow of value by identifying the right things to work on and limiting work-in-progress.You will collaborate with others around strategic initiatives and process improvement. Experience you'll need: You have demonstrated the skills of a high-proficiency, senior engineer.You have a broad understanding of many technologies and how they could best be leveraged at Pluralsight. You are aware of industry trends and how they might be utilized to create simple solutions for complex problems. Our teams are polyglot, with a mix of python and JVM based languages as the dominant choices. You are comfortable moving between these worlds.You have demonstrated a deep concern for the psychological safety, welfare, and success of your team and the entire organization.You have demonstrated a commitment to and passion for Pluralsight's values and Pluralsight engineering practices in the way you work and engage with others.You are able to exercise independent judgment in choosing methods, techniques, and approaches for obtaining results.You understand and and can navigate complex issues around application performance, reliability, scalability, and security.You have demonstrated leadership skills in your ability to inspire others and lead teams to success.You have demonstrated that you are a strong collaborator, a trusted teammate, and are skilled at resolving conflict.You have demonstrated success leveraging data streaming technologies and the processing/aggregation of data sourced from real-time streams. EOE StatementBe Yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.#LI-PGS1

Keywords: Pluralsight, Fayetteville , Staff Engineer, Other , Fayetteville, Arkansas