About Us:

Our mission is to elevate leading brands through unforgettable digital connections with their customers. Sitecore delivers a composable digital experience platform that empowers the world’s smartest and largest brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers.

A highly decorated industry leader, Sitecore is the leading company bringing together content, commerce, and data into one connected platform that delivers millions of digital experiences every day. Thousands of blue-chip companies including American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, L’Oréal, and Volvo Cars rely on Sitecore to provide more engaging, personalized experiences for their customers. Learn more at Sitecore.com.

Sitecore’s foundation is our diverse group of passionate, smart, innovative, and collaborative individuals located across four continents and over 25 countries. Having a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and skills is what makes us the company we are today. The Sitecore values are what drive and unite us across the globe.

CDP Core Streaming: 

Our CDP powers personalization experiences and many customer-behavior dependent marketing strategies adopted by some of the most recognized brands in the world. Our team is responsible for building the services and datastores that enable us to build highly scalable services. From the initial ingestion of customer records, we strive to ensure our core models satisfy the varying needs of our internal teams and diverse customer base.

This in itself is a challenge but it’s only the beginning. Once we have ingested the data, we are then tasked with making sense of it and storing it in consumable way, allowing our product teams to action on it instantaneously. The Core Streaming team also takes full ownership of analytics, building large scale data processing jobs to transform disparate data into clean, structured and well managed datasets. 

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help us  take our platform to the next level. The right person for this role is someone who is motivated, keen to keep learning and is drawn to the challenges of scaling and building resilient systems across 100s of nodes and crunching large amounts of data.

You will be part of a team guiding best practice across engineering and leading the design and delivery of distributed high volume data processing systems. You will be enabling real-time analytics and decisioning solutions leveraging the latest data processing technologies (e.g. Flink, Spark, AWS serverless technologies, etc.) and be responsible for providing innovative solutions across the platform to allow our customers gain value from their data. 

What You’ll Do:

• Use your experience in large-scale distributed systems, concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization to push the boundaries of our platform and re-imagine the art of the possible.  
• Take end-to-end responsibility for the design, implementation, and delivery of multiple major components within platform including data processing/modeling, data stores, microservices and APIs 
• Participate in ongoing Data & API governance practices; achieving velocity without sacrificing necessary process or quality and adopt a best practice blend that’s appropriate for our needs 
• Research new technologies and tools to improve business processes besides actively participating in architecture and strategy initiatives 
• Interface with other teams, product owners and architects to incorporate their innovations and vice versa 
• Development and growth of colleagues; you identify, nurture, and grow talents 

 What You Need to Succeed:

• Proven experience building software solutions with Java or Scala 
• Experience designing and building distributed, internet scale microservice based applications 
• Very proficient operating in a cloud centric ecosystem with exposure to continuous delivery and test-driven development  
• Demonstrate a high degree of initiative, passion for innovation, a solid understanding of software engineering, and a willingness to work in a highly collaborative Agile and DevOps culture 
• In depth understanding of data modeling, processing, and storage patterns 
• NoSQL databases experience such as Cassandra, and Elasticsearch as well as relational databases such as PostgreSQL 

Additional Skills That Could Set You Apart:

• Experience developing in Flink and/or Spark 
• Big Data systems such as Hive, Oozie and Hadoop 
• Experience with containerization approaches (Docker and Kubernetes) and schema modelling & validation tools (Swagger/OpenApi) 

Why you should click ‘Apply’:

• We are passionate about new technologies and growing! We are tapping into an exciting $30B market opportunity that is still very much in its infancy and feel It’s never been a better time to join Sitecore as we look to grow by 30% YoY. Growth for us means growth for you and your career.
• Great team and company culture! You can find out more about our company culture, a typical day in the Engineering team, and our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, on our YouTube Channel. Thanks to the work of every employee globally, Sitecore has been recognized for award-winning Culture by Comparably.
• Great benefits! We offer a competitive compensation package including competitive base salary, annual bonus, and strong benefits program.

How we hire:

At Sitecore, we put a lot of care and time into who we hire. We believe that in order to build the best products, we need to build high impact teams. Our recruitment process centers around what we call the Life Story interview, a conversational-style interview where we get to learn more about you.

Sitecore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without unlawful regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other local legally protected characteristic.