Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering

Job Description

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. We believe that by discovering the struggles and triumphs of our past, we can foster deeper bonds and more meaningful connections among families and communities. Our talented team of scientists, engineers, genealogists, historians, and storytellers is dedicated to empowering customers around the world from all backgrounds on their journeys of personal discovery. With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 125+ million family trees, and 22+ million people in our growing AncestryDNA database, Ancestry helps customers discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? You belong at Ancestry. Ancestry is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our business events team. In this role, you will deliver innovative products and services at a rapid pace, collecting, routing, and scaling billions of events to our backend data systems. As such you will provide services and frameworks to developers as a secure, scalable and highly available platform by using a variety of technologies such as Java, AWS, Kubernetes and Docker. Our Platform team is a full stack development team that provides APIs and a to internal developers to deliver a highly available, enterprise wide platform with an open source technology stack including Java, AWS managed services to simplify onboarding, building and deploying applications and to enable a continuous integration and delivery platform for Ancestry developers. Our focus is to be developer centric and to enable an open platform that provides shared services such as secrets and config management, centralized site settings and authentication. If you love writing code and want to work on a talented team of developers, this may be your dream job.

What you will do...

• Be a key player and mentor to a team of highly talented software engineers
• Own technical aspects of software development for our
• Perform design and development of APIs, services and frameworks
• Develop deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms
• Writes code and unit test, work on API specs, automation, and conduct code reviews and testing
• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Works closely with product owners on feature sets that impact platform, services and frameworks

Who you are...

• You will have at least 7 years of experience in software development (specifically Java), with a minimum of 4 years working in the US
• 5+ years of experience with design and implementation of distributed applications
• 3+ years of Linux experience, ideally contributed to open source projects
• 2+ years of experience with AWS APIs/ecosystem and cloud provisioning frameworks, preferably HashiCorp Terraform
• Experience with container technologies such as docker, AWS ECS and fargate.
• Experience with standardizing and automating CICD process
• Bachelor's in CS required. Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience is preferred

Helping people discover their story is at the heart of ours. Ancestry is the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, harnessing a powerful combination of information, science and technology to help people discover their family history and stories that were never possible before. Ancestry’s suite of products includes: AncestryDNA, AncestryProGenealogists, Fold3, Newspapers.com , Find a Grave, Archives.com , and Rootsweb. We offer excellent benefits and a competitive compensation package. For additional information, regarding our benefits and career information, please visit our website at http://ancestry.com/careers Additional Information: Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means. Apply for this job