Cloud Technical Lead

Company Overview

Sleep Number is a sleep wellness technology leader. For nearly four decades, we have placed sleep at the center of wellbeing, improving over 15 million lives with our Sleep Number smart beds. We are guided by our purpose – to improve the health and wellbeing of society through higher quality sleep. This is exemplified through our 4,000+ mission-driven team members who passionately innovate to drive value creation through our vertically integrated business model, owning the process from start to finish, including selling in our over 650 stores nationwide.

Our team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work, sharing their unique perspectives, backgrounds and skills with Sleep Number every day. Whether you are entering, returning or experienced in the workforce, we have a place for you. We hope you join us in creating the future through higher quality sleep.

Position Purpose

The Cloud Core Platform Technical Lead will be the hands-on lead responsible for guiding the full lifecycle of the SN LABS product platform. In this role, the position will be responsible for analysis, platform selection, technical architecture design, application design and development, testing, and Test and Deployment in Cloud Infrastructures. We are looking for candidates with a broad set of technology skills to be able to design and build robust big data solutions that scale.

Primary Responsibilities

• Development and support of algorithm driven applications with data processing
• Work closely with product, engineering, QA, DevOps and support teams to define and refine our cloud platform to achieve company objectives.
• Ensure high availability and provide application support
• Continually improve operational processes and procedures
• Collaborate with other technology teams and to define protocols, API's, to operate and acquire data from large numbers of Internet-connected devices
• Develop and support all aspects of our cloud presence on Amazon Web Services

Position Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 12+ years of software development experience with latest 1 to 2 years in a lead cloud development role
• Strong hands on experience with distributed system design at scale
• Strong expertise and experience in JDBC and data-oriented development
• Experience in Internet of Things (IoT) architecture is preferable
• Experience in developing distributed cloud applications and systems using Java and Scala preferably on AWS
• Strong experience with Java, AWS EC2, EMR, RDBMS, Cassandra or any other NoSQL DB
• In-depth experience in data and application modeling
• Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
• OOPS 
• Design Patterns
• Dependency Injection
• Network concepts (TCP, UDP, Ports, Proxy, Firewalls)
• Junit (or other unit testing framework)
• Application server/container configuration management and application deployment (Tomcat , Jboss etc)
• Distributed Patterns (Caching, Transactions,Message queues, Partitioning, Sharding) 
• Scaling Application under load (Partitioning, Sharding) 
• Persistence with Relational Database (SQL and JDBC) and Non Relational Database (Redis, Cassandra etc)
• Experience with Build Tools (Jenkins , Dockers ) , version control (Git) and dependency management (Maven or Gradle)
• Experience with Production and Performance Troubleshooting Tools (ELK , Splunk, Sumologic , Wireshark, jConsole, HeapAnalyzer, jMeter, Java profiler (VisualVM, JProfiler, YourKit))
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• Possess strong analytical skills, with excellent problem-solving abilities in the face of ambiguity
• Demonstrated understanding of high scale cloud architecture
• Good understanding of scalable distributed computing systems, software architecture, data structures and algorithms using Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Storm, etc.
• Proficient in network, distributed, asynchronous and concurrent programming
• Components of our system that are helpful to be familiar with AWS products such as EC2, S3, EMR, SQL and Cassandra database technologies, C and Java.
• Experience with Big data streaming framework like Flink or Flume or Spark or Kinesi
• Experience with KAFKA 

Salary Pay Range: $185,000.00 -$225,000.00

Wellbeing

Wellbeing is more than a catchphrase - it's a movement that permeates our company and through our team members. We are dedicated to enhancing and supporting the wellbeing of our team members and their families through benefits, programs, and resources across our five wellbeing pillars of emotional, financial, career, community, and physical health, with sleep at the center.

By joining our team, in addition to offering competitive pay programs, we are proud to offer eligible team members an extensive benefits package including, but not limited to medical and pharmacy benefits, dental, life and disability insurance, a matched 401(k) Plan, paid time off, and much more.

Safety

Safety is a top priority for Sleep Number supporting customers and team members wellbeing. COVID-19 Precaution(s) are in place consistent with CDC guidelines, U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA), and state/local laws.

EEO Statement

Sleep Number is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting qualified people and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, marital status, religion, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed servicemember status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

It is Sleep Number’s policy to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process, consistent with applicable law. We may require supporting medical or religious documentation where applicable and permissible by law. If you are a qualified individual, you may request a reasonable accommodation at any time during the selection process, including if you are unable or otherwise limited in your ability to access open roles here.