Software Engineer II - Network Services and Security

Company Summary:

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.

Position Title: Software Engineer II, Network - P3

Role:

As a Software Engineer, you will join a team responsible for applying modern software design principles to deliver business value at Crown Castle. You will play a critical role in integrating Crown Castle’s commercial systems, ensuring that they stay in sync and respond to changes from other relevant systems. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to make an impact to our reporting and data ecosystem by engineering better batch processing as well as paving the way for real-time data processing.

The Integration & Data team strives to move the envelope forward in Crown Castle’s quest towards autonomous networks. We are a tight knit team where you can grow your skills in an environment that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and empowerment. You will work on a variety of projects aimed at synchronizing systems and automating processes, covering topics such as capacity management, change management, operational reporting and more. You will work on a data-driven agile team with some of the most talented and dynamic professionals to plan, design, commit, and deliver highly impactful business capabilities. If you enjoy using technology to solve complex problems and have a growth mind set, then this opportunity is for you.

Responsibilities:

• Write high-quality, well-designed, testable code built with the engineering rigor necessary to support application reliability, scalability, maintainability, extensibility, and security.
• Leverage modern development languages and frameworks including Python, SQL Alchemy, Apache Spark, and Docker.
• Develop data access APIs implemented as gRPC microservices.
• Own projects from design to deployment including documentation and estimation, communicating with stakeholders and teammates as required.
• Develop your knowledge of individual components within the application portfolio and branch out into other areas as you grow as a software engineer.
• Employ GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins to automate deployment pipelines and application runs
• Reverse engineer and modernize legacy codebases.
• Use SQL to investigate, analyze, and process data in a variety of databases (PostrgeSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL).

Expectations:

• Self-motivated individual who can translate business challenges into defined software specifications.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive as well as the ability to work well with diverse teams.
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to both business users and stakeholders in addition to technical teams.
• Great verbal and written communication skills.

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline preferred.
• Comparable years of industry experience can be considered in lieu of a degree (put your GitHub, etc. link in your resume).

Experience/Minimum Requirements:

• 3 years of profession software engineering experience with languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, including object-oriented design
• 3 years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, scalability, and security) of new and current systems.
• Web service protocols, such as SOAP, REST, or gRPC.
• Use of IDE and browser-based debuggers and debugging tools as well as strong Linux skills.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle: design, functional and technical requirements, coding, debugging, testing, release, and operational support.
• Experience with software development best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, automated build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience designing and implementing microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL database technologies (such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis).
• Write and maintain software code from front-end interfaces to back-end logic for applications, systems, or tools that access or retain all or some data related to customers, financial information, or personally identifiable information (PII). Subject to local and state eligibility, a pre-employment background check will be conducted for criminal convictions, including misdemeanors and felonies related to fraud or violence. A credit check may also be conducted.  

Other Skills/Abilities:

• Telecommunications or networking experience helpful but not required.
• Experience reading and writing protocol buffers (protobufs) or other API modeling frameworks.
• Experience observability frameworks and tools like OpenTelemetry and ElasticSearch helpful but not required.
• Experience in at least one dashboarding technology (Grafana, PowerBI, etc.).

Working Conditions: This is a remote role with the expectation of on-site/in-person collaboration with teammates and stakeholders and may require up to 10% travel. 

Salary : $105,400 - $144,900