Software Architect - Cloud Data Platform, San Mateo, CA

Software Architect - Cloud Data Platform, San Mateo, CA

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Are you passionate about building large scale multi-tenant cloud-native data platforms? Do you have prior experience in building data platform/data lake and analytics SaaS services in the public cloud? Do you have expertise in modern Big Data stack (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Hive), Java, and/or Scala?

Come join our Data platform and Analytics team. This team owns, builds, and operates Guidewire's cloud-native data platform and analytics SaaS offerings. Guidewire's data platform is targeted to be best-in-class in enabling our customers with mission-critical insights and decision-making capabilities. The platform is designed to support all of our analytics, data science, and data applications. You will work in a highly collaborative environment building next-generation platforms and services.

Required Skills

• Extensive experience with Big Data and distributed systems
• Ability to design large scale distributed systems
• Prior experience in building data platforms using Big Data stack (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Hive ) on public cloud
• Excellent programming skills in Java and/or Scala
• Experience with stream processing using Spark or Flink
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles (consistency and availability, liveness and safety, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms)
• Deep understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Performance Optimization Techniques
• Eager to learn new things and passionate about technology!
• Comfortable working with Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, and Terraform.

What you would do

• Design cloud-native data platform and analytics SaaS services
• Own architecture and provide technical leadership to multiple teams
• Hands-on coding>30% of the time
• Design and build large scale real-time stream processing systems
• Design and develop micro-services and analytics SaaS solutions
• Own scalability, availability, and data security
• Own, tackle & resolve code defects
• Mentor junior developers in standards and best practices!

What you would need to succeed

• Extensive experience working on a public cloud-like AWS
• Prior experience and passion for building large scale multi-tenant cloud-native data platform
• Emphasize team wins over individual success
• Strong technical interpersonal skills
• Excellent software development skills in one or more of the following languages: Java/Scala
• Extensive experience with Big Data and distributed systems.
• Expertise in Spark or Flink, Kafka, and Hadoop ecosystem
• Ability to design large scale distributed systems
• Have developed in more than one language and ready to pivot to any language/framework
• Understand microservices architecture patterns pattern like Service Discovery/API Gateway/Domain Driven Design etc
• Experience with containers technology
• Ability to work in an agile fast-paced environment
• BS or MS degree (Computer Science or Math)
• 5+ years of required work experience

Bonus

• AWS (EMR, S3, Glue, Kinesis)
• ELK
• Experience in building SaaS/PaaS on AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure.
• AI/ML

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About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.

Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. 380 insurers, including the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 700+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

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