Principal Cloud Engineer

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that. Our technology helped people put a man on the moon.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest growth organizations in the world. From energizing the most competitive gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Binge-watch any shows, use social media or shop online lately? You’ll find Western Digital supporting the storage infrastructure behind many of these platforms. And, that flash memory card that captures and preserves your most precious moments? That’s us, too.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices and platforms for business and consumers alike. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

Job Description

The Technology, Software and Services organization is looking for a highly technical developer to contribute to its Cloud Services development across consumer products. 

You will be a part of the Consumer Solutions business unit that is responsible for consumer products sold worldwide under the brands WD and Sandisk and serve over 350 million customers each year.

Inside the business unit, our organization has a charter to help transform the business through new software experiences, build a consolidated ecosystem of products where content can move freely between devices and cloud services with the goal to increase our active users and generate recurring revenue over time.    

In this role, you will work within a geographically distributed team of engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting the cloud services that power our customer products. 

The ideal candidate for this role has extensive experience implementing highly scalable, reliable, and cost-effective services to meet product and requirements. 

You will develop and implement best practices that continuously raise the bar to achieve quality, security, performance and reliability that are core features of our products and services.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate in design and implementation of new features as well as timely bug fixes.
• Maintain healthy system architecture and help the team shrink its technical debt.
• Build distributed, scalable and secure microservices running in AWS with high-quality code and high standards.
• Participate in code reviews, building unit test, integration tests and functional tests.
• Contribute to the tools and processes that improve efficiency and quality of development.
• Be aware of cutting-edge technologies and tools in the cloud development realm.
• Be highly adaptable to an environment that has a fast-paced change in requirements and processes.

Qualifications

• 7 years of software development, ideally in Java with focus on cloud services.
• 5 years of work experience with Spring Boot
• 3 years of  work experience with AWS
• Critical thinking skills and the ability to develop highly scalable solutions.
• Strong Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structure, algorithms, and system level programming (including multi-threaded programming)
• Architectural knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architecture for multi-tier applications
• Up-to-date overview of modern software development tools and techniques
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD 
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science required.

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

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