Staff Software Engineer

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next.  Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.

To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

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Vantor is seeking a talented Observability Software Engineer with experience monitoring the performance and health of a large-scale engineering platform; including logging, tracing, alerting, and visualization.
 
Job Description

You will be part of the Monitoring, Observability, and Usage team. This team is responsible for monitoring, alerting, and logging the health of our Platform.

In this role, you will have the freedom to design and engineer solutions to drive innovative, modern approaches to meet our user needs and customer SLA requirements. A successful candidate will be a passionate developer that embraces modern software development and insists others do as well. You will introduce automation and evangelize new tools and processes within a collaborative team environment. You will assist our engineering teams with monitoring, alerting, and logging the performance of our APIs. You will build internal dashboards and solutions, conduct code reviews, and communicate statuses in daily stand-ups within an agile workflow. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Executive Leadership to ensure we meet our SLOs and customer SLAs.

This position is located in Westminster, CO or can be performed remotely. Candidates must be U.S. citizens. 
 
What You’ll Do Day-today 
- Develop and implement technical solutions for observability systems, which include monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Work closely with Product and Engineering to ensure we are meeting customer SLAs

- Commit code to Git repository using best practices and perform Pull Request reviews
- Help architect features and capabilities, as well as document the implementation

- Participate in daily stand-ups and sprint planning
 
Minimum Requirements: 
 
- Must be a US citizen
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

- Minimum of 3-7 years of related experience 
- Programming experience with Python and Java

- Experience with Grafana or similar observability software

- Experience with internal system logging (ELK or similar)

- Experience developing REST API endpoints

- Experience with service-oriented and microservice architectures 
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab) 
- Exposure to database technologies and management principles 
- Experience building cloud-native services (AWS, Google, Azure), including use of serverless computing technologies 
 - Experience with software lifecycles centered around right-sized mono-repos and their associated tooling that provides seamless integration testing and deployment
 
Preferred Qualifications: 
 
- Experience with Kubernetes

- Familiarity with Jenkins

- Familiarity with ArgoCD and Helm or similar

- Familiarity with query languages (SQL, PL/SQL) and databases (relational, NoSQL, and graph databases e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j) 
- Experience with utilizing automated testing and linting (PyTest, Black, Flake8, Radon, iSort)

- Strong written communication

- Highly focused self-starter that likes solving problems

- Passion for learning and teaching new technical skills

- Experience with geospatial software and domain (ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoServer, CQL)

- Experience with raster data (imagery, basemaps, mosaics)

- Experience working on a geographically distributed team

Pay Transparency: In support of pay transparency at Vantor, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings.  The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.  If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. 

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EEO Policy: Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We believe in fostering an environment where all team members feel respected, valued, and encouraged to share their ideas. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.