Senior Software Engineer

At Milestone, your work goes beyond what the human eye can see. With our unique video technology software, you help people make wiser and more responsible decisions – in and beyond security. Whether you advance our software, inspire to new integrations, or elevate our customers, you are part of a growth company recognized by the industry. We have a unique people-first approach to everything we do, and it’s not just empty words. Being part of a fun, friendly, and flexible environment you’ll find, that working here almost feels like a home away from home. If you are curious to know more about who we are, we suggest you visit http://milestonesys.com/career 

Be the key in unlocking business opportunities in the convergent world of Open Platform IP Video Management Systems! Join Milestone, a global market leader! 

Milestone seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join our fast-moving, innovative VSaaS engineering team. In this role, you will architect, design, and build highly scalable distributed data systems to enable new and innovative solutions in cloud-based video surveillance and IoT control systems. To be successful, you will demonstrate experience and judgment in architecting, designing, and developing critical engineering systems. You will provide sound technical recommendations and dive into solving complex system and data design and implementation challenges. You will learn and share knowledge with the best and help us architect and build modern cloud-native data applications. You will meaningfully contribute to decisions on technology and processes to maximize our products' performance, scalability, and reliability. 

This fully remote role can be located anywhere in the US. 

When joining Milestone, you can look forward to being part of a company with an impressive growth history and an embracing, second-to-none People-First Culture.

Responsibilities:

• Work with product managers, technology teams, and engineering peers to understand and implement roadmap priorities and shape product features that address customers' needs.
• Employ advanced knowledge of common software design patterns focusing on microservice architecture. 
• Articulate design and architecture trade-offs and apply software design patterns to solve complex engineering problems efficiently.
• Apply skilled knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and design.
• Drive design and implementation based on sound engineering principles and best practices, focusing on testability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Provide overall project design and estimates that meet business and technology strategy needs during project scoping phases.
• Manage the velocity of delivery without compromising the quality of product releases.
• Embrace the “you build it, you run it” engineering principle.
• Champion good software engineering habits such as clean code principles, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and “going end-to-end early.”
• Own, diagnose, and resolve complex system technical issues and code defects.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to help establish the technical roadmap to facilitate innovation and enhancement of product capabilities.
• Provide leadership with a perspective on "what’s next" in technology, coding tools, applications, and concepts.
• Collaborate well with and across teams.
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and lifelong learning.
• Identify and work with SRE to implement automation opportunities that will enhance the efficiency of the software delivery cycle and the reliability of Milestone’s VSaaS product.

Professional Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of software development experience with a distinguished track record of delivering complex data-rich enterprise services.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with programming in Go, C , or an equivalent compiled language.
• Rich experience developing applications deployed on public cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Experience with real-time data processing (Kafka, SQS, Google Pub/Sub, and similar).
• Experience handling large datasets, including data storage and search techniques.
• Familiarity with testing methodologies and fully comfortable with TDD/BDD development practices.
• Strong understanding of modern CI/CD methodologies and Git-based workflows.
• Clear and persuasive written and oral communication skills are required to collaborate with and persuade fellow engineers and non-technical audiences. 
• A breadth of technology and engineering skills, knowledge, and experience - comfortable with topics spanning programming languages, AI/ML, advanced networking, compute and data platforms, as well as automation and big data.

Why Milestone?

Ranked on the 100 Best Companies to Work for in Oregon, Milestone offers not only great benefits but also great culture. Employees here have flexible work environments, opportunities for further education, and the ability to effect change in our Organization directly. 

The annual salary for this position ranges from $139,477 to $212,441, with most candidates falling in the $157,709 to $182,933 range. Pay is based on the level, location, complexity, responsibility, and job duties of the specific position and is just one component of Milestone’s total compensation package. Additionally, we offer an attractive benefits package that includes medical/dental benefits, FSA or HSA, 401k with 6% Safe Harbor employer match, paid parental leave, generous PTO (20 days' vacation, 10 days paid sick time, and 12 company holidays), fully paid Short Term disability policy, fully paid Long Term disability policy, and Life Insurance. If you are selected for an interview, please feel welcome to speak to our Talent Partner about our compensation philosophy.

Milestone is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Contact and application

Please apply at our website: www.milestonesys.com

If you have any questions, you are very welcome to contact Cindy Phillips, Talent Acquisition Partner, at ciph@milestone.us

We are looking forward to receiving your application