Chief Engineer – Software

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Wisconsin.

📋 Description

• Oversee software architecture for the connected vehicle Azure cloud platform, encompassing cloud backend, data, APIs, web, and mobile integrations.

• Make informed architectural choices that balance scalability, reliability, security, performance, built-in quality, and cost-efficiency.

• Create cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven processing, and data-intensive applications.

• Set architectural and coding standards.

• Mentor engineers to enhance engineering quality.

• Collaborate with embedded engineers, product owners, and engineering leads to convert product requirements into technical solutions.

• Eliminate obstacles and assist the team in fulfilling sprint commitments.

• Enhance availability, latency, security, operational readiness, and cost-effectiveness through ongoing improvements.

• Support a connected vehicle telematics platform for fire and emergency response, refuse collection, and concrete mixer vehicles.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience in developing backend software and APIs for cloud-native applications.

• Proficient programming skills in C#, .NET Core, or similar programming languages.

• Familiarity with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure Functions, Event Grid, Event Hub, Azure Web PubSub, Azure Communication Service, and Azure Service Bus.

• Experience in designing cloud data stores: ADX, SQL, time-series data, CosmosDB, and Redis.

• Skilled in deploying containerized services using Docker and Azure Container Apps.

• Knowledge of CI/CD and infrastructure as code practices such as GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise.

• Experience in managing and optimizing Azure cloud costs.

• Understanding of event-driven architecture, messaging patterns, and real-time data processing.

• Background in building connected vehicle, automotive, industrial IoT, or telematics platforms.

• Capable of designing secure, observable cloud services utilizing Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and cloud security best practices.

• Proficient with Linux command-line environments, including system administration, troubleshooting, and maintaining self-hosted GitHub Actions runners for CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong collaboration, problem-solving, and communication abilities.

• Proven capacity to lead in uncertain situations and balance architectural rigor with delivery speed.

• Candidates for specific roles may need to qualify as U.S. Persons under ITAR/EAR regulations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package.

• People-first culture.

• Opportunities to foster team member growth and success.

• Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.