Staff Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design and maintain essential services that allow customers to provision, purchase, and license Sonatype products.

• Create, develop, test, and sustain software that facilitates provisioning, licensing, and purchasing functions.

• Construct scalable, dependable, and maintainable backend services.

• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural choices.

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and various cross-functional teams.

• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code while engaging in code reviews.

• Diagnose production issues and enhance system performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Mentor and guide engineers through technical advice, design evaluations, and knowledge sharing.

• Contribute to automation, infrastructure enhancements, and cloud-native engineering practices.

• Make a significant impact as a proactive individual contributor.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of professional software engineering experience in developing production-quality applications.

• Hands-on experience with agent-driven development and code review processes.

• Proficient in building backend applications using Java.

• Familiarity with additional programming languages such as Golang and Python.

• Experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS.

• Practical experience using Docker, Terraform, and Ansible.

• Knowledge of Maven.

• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL.

• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and microservices.

• Strong grasp of software design principles, testing, debugging, and distributed systems.

• Excellent communication skills and a genuine passion for mentoring fellow engineers.

• A desire to maintain a highly technical role while providing technical leadership.

• Exposure to Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Experience in building or supporting commercial platforms related to licensing, provisioning, subscription management, or purchasing systems.

• Experience in Agile development environments.

• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD best practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Parental leave.

• Diversity and inclusion working groups.

• Flexible working practices.

• Equal-opportunity employment.

• Disability and special-needs accommodation.