Senior Developer – Windows Device Driver

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As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of software modules owned by a team. You will guide and mentor junior team members by reviewing their code and designs to ensure that they are writing well designed and high quality code. This role requires excellent communication skills as you will need to collaborate across teams. 

Key Skills:

• 3 to 6 years of experience
• Extensive experience on C/C++/Python
• Experience on OS - Unix/Linux and Windows
• Hands on experience in Networking and Multi-threading

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in Cloud Technologies, system programming is a plus

Roles and responsibilities:

• Play key role in design/development of security product. 
• Responsible for the complete software development cycle.
• Gathering & understanding requirements.
• Design, development & implementation independently.
• Responsible for ensuring timely and quality delivery.
• Will be able to work in end to end features. 

Qualification:

• B.Tech / B.E / M.E./ M.Tech (Computer Science) or equivalent.

Requirements

• Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming language (e. g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming.
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and a huge passion and ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interfaces.
• Excellent coding skills - should be able to convert the design into code fluently.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development. Good understanding of databases (e. g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e. g. HBase, Elasticsearch, Aerospike etc).
• Strong desire to solve complex and interesting real-world problems.
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform. Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks.
• Worked in a startup-like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• BTech, MTech or Ph. D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
• Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amounts of data.
• 3+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a large scale.
• An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and takes constructive feedback

• Write a significant amount of code for new and existing databases and related systems
• Scale and own these backend systems and databases
• Ship high-quality code and architecture
• Mentor engineers on the team, developing their skills and helping advance their careers
• Work with the founders to flesh out the future of the product
• Help shape the future of our engineering organization

Requirements

• A passion for working on deeply technical projects and wanting to work on distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, replication protocols, file systems & correctness
• You have been building applications for 5+ years with C/C++ or Rust and have significant backend, database, or systems-level programming experience
• You have a BS/MS/Ph.D. in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You are comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, Slack, Zoom, etc. in the open and as a self-starter

Bonus points:

• Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals
• Experience with Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet
• Know how columnar databases work
• Know how to convert an algorithm to use SIMD instructions
• Good knowledge of Linux internals
• You’ve contributed to open-source libraries and actively participate in the development community (blogging, giving talks, meetups, tweeting, etc.)

• Develop, design, and implement embedded applications.
• Prepares appropriate documentation as required by internal product development processes and regulatory agencies such as FDA and ISO.
• Write technical specifications for interfaces and testing.
• Design and develop medical device software products with extensive knowledge of technical principles, theories, and concepts in the Software Development field.
• Conducts and participates in the design, code, and test reviews and inspections, ensuring application of software engineering best practices, as well as the feasibility, efficacy, and compliance to functional and regulatory standards.
• Works closely with the software team, the software verification team, the functional manager, and the project manager.
• Collaborates with distributed, cross-functional teams to ensure products meet quality, performance, scalability, reliability, and schedule goals.
• Investigates software, hardware, and system problems using a variety of techniques and provides innovative solutions.
• Conduct and participate in reviews and inspections for all elements in the software lifecycle to ensure that our software quality and customer satisfaction goals are achieved

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Software or Electronics related Engineering discipline or related field with 6+ years of experience.
• Experience designing and developing embedded solutions.
• Proficient in programming languages - C, C++.
• Ability to understand the electrical schematics and work closely with the electrical team.
• Experience with Real-Time Operating Systems.
• Experience writing/interfacing with device drivers
• Experience with CAN, TCP/IP, RS232 communication protocols
• Experience in Agile development processes and philosophies.
• History of driving project execution and timely delivery while ensuring a quality focus.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, and often ambiguous environment where continuous improvement is a way of life.
• Excellent teaming skills to work with cross-functional and in a multi-site software team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with In Vitro Diagnostic domain is a plus.
• Experience with OOA/OOD development methodologies and design patterns a plus.
• Understanding software development processes for a regulated environment (ISO9000/FDA) a plus.
• Experience in medical device design & development a plus.

About the Role

The Dremio India team owns the DataLake Engine along with Cloud Infrastructure and services that power it. With focus on next generation data analytics supporting modern table formats like Iceberg, Deltalake, and open source initiatives such as Apache Arrow, Project Nessie and hybrid-cloud infrastructure, this team provides various opportunities to learn, deliver, and grow in career. We are looking for technical leaders with passion and experience in architecting and delivering high-quality distributed systems at massive scale.

Responsibilities & ownership

• Lead end-to-end delivery and customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product
• Lead and mentor others about concurrency, parallelization to deliver scalability, performance and resource optimization in a multithreaded and distributed environment
• Propose and promote strategic company-wide tech investments taking care of business goals, customer requirements, and industry standards
• Lead the team to solve complex, unknown and ambiguous problems, and customer issues cutting across team and module boundaries with technical expertise, and influence others
• Review and influence designs of other team members 
• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Partner with other leaders to nurture innovation and engineering excellence in the team
• Drive priorities with others to facilitate timely accomplishments of business objectives
• Perform RCA of customer issues and drive investments to avoid similar issues in future
• Collaborate with Product Management, Support, and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio
• Proactively suggest learning opportunities about new technology and skills, and be a role model for constant learning and growth

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Java/C++ with 15+ years of experience developing production-level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
• 8+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
• Subject Matter Expert in one or more of query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency, micro service based architectures, data replication, networking, storage systems
• Experience in taking company-wide initiatives, convincing stakeholders, and delivering them
• Expert in solving complex, unknown and ambiguous problems spanning across teams and taking initiative in planning and delivering them with high quality
• Ability to anticipate and propose plan/design changes based on changing requirements 
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Hands-on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and GCP 
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure,  and GCP) 
• Understanding of distributed file systems such as  S3, ADLS or HDFS
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Lead one of the product verticals in the development of technology strategy, planning, hiring and execution of the next iteration of the WeInvest platform.

• Institutionalize a strong software engineering culture and facilitate a rapid, iterative, layered development approach.

• Be hands on with the coding, evaluate design and architecture choices, do in-depth code reviews, and implement standards and practices for software development.

• Inspire the engineering team to build quality, scalable code by pairing with team members periodically.

• Participate in the definition and management of high-quality product roadmaps based on business, product & tech strategy.

• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Masters /BE/ B.Tech from a reputed institute

• About 6-10 years professional experience in software development.

• Excellent logical and analytical reasoning capabilities combined with strong knowledge of core

computer science concepts like algorithms, data structures, software design patterns, OOP etc.

• Should have experience in all the phases of SDLC

• Must have experience in leading a team. (At least 2-3 people)

• Be an expert in ruby on rails with experience OR from Fintech, Wealth Management OR Investment

• Management Domain with experience in any of the programming languages (Java/Python/Ruby).

• Breadth of experience in multiple technologies, tools, frameworks and processes is a big plus.

• Excellent understanding of core computer science concepts like algorithms, data structure,

Software design patterns, OOP etc. Be able to lead the team in design & architecture discussions,

introduce new tools, concepts & process to the team and guide other members of the team.

• Experience working in an agile team with software engineering practices like automated testing,

test- driven-development, continuous integration etc is a big plus.

• Excellent oral and written communication.