Senior Software Engineer

Company: Intuitive Surgical
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: June 16, 2022

Job Description:

Company DescriptionAt Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.Job DescriptionAbout the TeamThe Core Technologies Engineering (CTE) group within Intuitive has an immediate opening in Sunnyvale, CA, for a senior software engineer focusing on large-scale distributed systems to take our internal system to the next level. You will be leading the development and integration of a complex distributed system for multiple robotic platforms that build our software, runs exhaustive tests suites in simulation and hardware in the loop. Finally, you will feed the data from your system into a robust data pipeline to analyze and visualize software reliability.A successful candidate must excel in a high-energy focused team environment, must have excellent communication skills, and must be able to balance independent production of results with the need to collaborate during planning, development, integration, and evaluation of research concepts and minimum viable products. The ability to learn existing systems rapidly and drive to creative-yet practical-solutions from rough requirements are essential in this position. -Core Responsibilities:Create high impact distributed services and systems that improve the efficiency of our internal development teams and in turn the reliability of the robotic platforms we buildCollaborate closely with our platform software, robotic simulation, test automation, software build, and DevOps teams to create a comprehensive solution in this space to dramatically reduce developer iteration time.Scope, design, build, and deploy internal microservices to connect disparate unconnected pieces of infrastructure into a harmonious complex distributed system.Make decisions and respond to problems based on data by creating effective telemetry, monitoring and observability in the systems you design and manage to reduce developer cycle time and improve incident responseDevelop scripts to monitor and troubleshoot issues across Internal/AWS services. Help build and maintain scalable, cost-efficient, and highly available AWS cloud environments.QualificationsRequired Skills/Experience:7+ years of software development -with a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math or equivalent experience.Strong Git experience, development methodologies, trunk-based develop vs. git flow, etc.Strong end-to-end ownership and a good sense of urgency to enable proper self-prioritization.Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, PowerShell, or other mainstream scripting languages.Experience building microservices with Python and FastAPI.Comfortable working in Linux based environments.Experience with Jenkins, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker + WSL2, etc.Experience building and deploying infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC); we use Terraform and Ansible but are interested in your experience.Additional InformationDue to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. - Details can vary by role.Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws. Shift : Day Travel : NoneJob SummaryJob number: JOB1463Date posted : 2022-06-09Profession: Product Engineering & DesignEmployment type: Full-time

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