Application Engineer (SRE)

Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career. 

As an Application Engineer (Relaibility), you’ll build and release reliable software and infrastructure systems at scale for the Digital Payments wallets such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, COF - Amazon, COF Paypal to start. By partnering with enterprise-wide teams, you’ll develop and maintain full stack solutions that fit our business needs. You’ll use your holistic view of all products (and their interactions) to design elegant solutions and strategize the future state of our larger technical ecosystem. By independently innovating and advocating for best practices, you’ll solve complex problems and guide the team on implementing solutions from inception to production. 

Responsibilities 

• Architect, analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production 
• Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow 
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills 

• Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them 
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures 
• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover 

Minimum Qualifications 

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you: 

• Bachelors – Computer Science 
• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related 
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Chef/Ansible and Terraform.
• Solid understanding of Networking and Linux fundamentals
• Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java or Ruby and shell scripting.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of Postgres/Redis maintenance knowledge on AWS.
• Ability to problem solve in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of work experience with alerting and monitoring tools(AppD, Kibana, DataDog) and building standards.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of OCP/Kubernetes experience.
• Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory.
• Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring.
• CKA or CKAD certification is a plus.

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview. 

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