Bayer · 8 hours ago
Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Go/Golang/Python)
Creve Coeur, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$137K/yr - $205K/yr
5+ years expBayer is a leading company in the agricultural sector, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to shape and coordinate technical strategies across key business organizations. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to design data solutions, evaluate new technologies, and improve processes while mentoring junior engineers.
BiotechnologyChemical & MaterialsHealthcarePharmaceuticalLife ScienceChemicalHealth Care
Responsibilities
Lead and participate in design sessions with enterprise and hub data stewards, engineering teams, data scientists, product managers, business, and IT stakeholders, resulting in documentation for data processing, storage, and delivery solutions
Understand business capability needs and processes as they relate to IT solutions through partnering with Product Managers and business and functional IT stakeholders, applying this knowledge to influence business goals
Initiate and lead evaluations of new technologies, such as Domino or Redshift, or new languages like Go or React, including performing POCs and presenting results to provide technical recommendations
Help the team establish and improve processes and methodologies, such as SCRUM or Kanban, and/or lead piloting new ones
Implement data solutions according to design documentation using a variety of tools and programming languages, like Kafka, SQL, and non-SQL databases, Scala, Go, etc., following the team's established processes and methodologies
Facilitate and participate in code reviews, retrospectives, functional and integration testing, and other team activities focused on improving the quality of delivery
Provide reliable estimates for large-scale projects
Lead collaboration with business partners, product owners, other engineers, and data stewards within the team and across data, analytics, and product teams on planning and aligning roadmaps, delivery dates, and integration efforts
Coach and mentor junior and aspiring data engineers on the team and across the data and engineering communities
Present on various technical topics to internal and external audiences, for example, at national and international technical conferences
Facilitate various cross-team and department efforts, like scrum of scrums and release planning, focused on large-scale roadmap alignments, sharing information, solving a broad variety of problems, or improving processes
Discuss work, provide details, and influence the right level of audience such as senior leadership, business partners, data scientists, and engineering teams
Create and maintain design and code documentation in GitHub, Haystack, SharePoint, and/or other repositories used by the team
Qualification
Required
Must have one of the following: High School diploma with at least 14 years of relevant professional software engineering experience; OR Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and at least 10 years of relevant professional software engineering experience; OR Master's degree and at least 7 years of relevant professional software engineering experience; OR Ph.D. with at least 5 years of relevant professional software engineering experience
Significant professional experience with and deep knowledge of: Authoring high-quality Golang and or Python code to deliver new features, evolve existing services, and resolve defects; API design principles (REST, gRPC) and API gateway technologies; Google Cloud Platform; Kubernetes (GKE is a nice to have); Key architectural patterns, such as microservices and event-driven architecture, with a deep understanding of their related trade-offs; Best practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD – GitHub Actions); Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g. Terraform, Kustomize, etc.)
Deep familiarity with: Data architecture and modeling concepts and paradigms; Observability concepts, such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and related tooling (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.); Being a productive reviewer of code, with an ability to coach others on the differentiation of style and correctness; Publish/subscribe models and supporting technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka, Google Pubsub, AWS SNS/SQS, etc.)
Some professional experience with: Relational databases and declarative query languages such as SQL (e.g., Oracle, Postgres, etc.); Git version control system and related tools such as GitHub or GitLab; Designing, building and running large-scale systems
Preferred
At least 6 years of experience engineering data-intensive software using streaming and resource-based design principles
At least 4 years of experience in at least one NoSQL database, such as Neo4j, Cassandra, etc
At least 7 years of demonstrated experience with programming languages such as Python or Go
Demonstrated experience migrating Python codebases to Go
Strong understanding of cloud-native security best practices
Strong understanding of DevOps best practices
Direct experience implementing service meshes (e.g., Istio) in Kubernetes environments
Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and concepts with direct experience deploying software using the Kubernetes control plane
A demonstrated understanding of Machine Learning and Generative AI concepts
Knowledge of the agricultural domain
Benefits
Health care
Vision
Dental
Retirement
PTO
Sick leave
Company
Bayer
Bayer is a life science company that specializes in the areas of health care and agriculture.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$9.34BKey Investors
Bank of AmericaBill & Melinda Gates FoundationTemasek Holdings
2025-09-26Post Ipo Debt· $332.07M
2024-12-06Post Ipo Debt· $5.29B
2022-11-08Grant· $12M
Leadership Team
Wolfgang Nickl
Member of the Board of Management of Bayer AG and CFO
Abi Abitorabi
VP, CGT Platform Implementation Lead
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