Job Description

Overview: The Staff Software Development Engineer L5 works with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, has the ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design distributed systems that are resilient and secure at scale from inception;
• Raise the engineering bar on scale, resiliency, security fundamentals via technical leadership and engineering excellence;
• Discover, review, and influence new and evolving design, architecture, and standards for building and delivering unique services and solutions;
• Investigate, design, and implement best-in-industry, innovative technologies that will expand Inovalon\'s infrastructure through robust, scalable, adrenaline-fueled solutions;
• Champion the enterprise infrastructure vision and strategy;
• Be the expert in service reliability and sustainability;
• Develop and execute designs for complex systems backed by excellence, confidence, and thorough engineering analysis;
• Develop, gather, and leverage metrics to manage the server fleet and complex computing systems to drive automation, improvement, and performance;
• Take ownership of ensuring detailed design, analysis, testing, and optimization;
• Set direction/goals for the team regarding project impact, product quality and engineering efficiency;
• Lead major initiatives, projects, teams, rollouts and phased releases;
• Provide mentorship onboarding new team members and enabling successful ramp up;
• Collaborate with other engineers, services across Inovalon, and external customers to understand requirements, have tight feedback loop that is data driven;
• Adhere to all confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and other such policies, procedures, and requirements as outlined within Employer\'s Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the scope of work.
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon\'s policies, procedures and mission statement, and fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success.

• Minimum 15 years of plus experience with Unix management, complex computing platforms, and/or cutting-edge technologies involving virtualization, distribution, and high performance computing;
• Strives to achieve excellence backed by strong architectural, system design, and automation experience;
• Technology experience required; Hive, Hbase, Sqoop, Ranger, NIFI - Other technologies good to have; Spark, Phoenix, Spring Batch, Accumulo, Falcon, Atlas;
• Experience engineering solutions on one of the major Hadoop distributions - Java scripting and application support experience strongly desired;
• Experience with virtualization technologies required and driven to solve difficult problems with scalable, elegant, and maintainable solutions;
• Expert and creative troubleshooter - unrelenting, persistent, confident;
• A penchant for thinking outside the box to solve complex and interesting problems;
• Extensive knowledge of existing industry standards, technologies, and infrastructure operations;
• Ability to manage stressful situations with calm, courtesy, and confidence;
• Experience building and shipping high quality work and achieving high reliability; and
• Experience improving stability through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes.

• Bachelor\'s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology

• Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time).
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally usually for training purposes.

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