Staff Software Engineer

at GE Healthcare · Healthcare · Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India · Digital Technology / IT

Staff Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience in designing, developing, deploying, and supporting production-grade software products. Requires strong expertise in Java, AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, virtualization technologies, and modern DevOps practices, with hands-on experience supporting applications in a live production environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high‑performance applications.
  2. Own end‑to‑end product lifecycle — from architecture to production support.
  3. Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues ensuring continuous availability.
  4. Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools and practices.
  5. Implement cloud-native architectures and deploy services on AWS.

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • AWS Cloud
  • Kubernetes
  • virtualization technologies
  • DevOps practices
  • production support
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • CloudWatch

Nice to have

  • microservices architecture
  • networking fundamentals
  • SRE
  • platform engineering
  • Healthcare domain
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional
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Job Description Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience in designing, developing, deploying, and supporting production-grade software products. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Java, AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, virtualization technologies, and modern DevOps practices, along with hands-on experience supporting applications in a live production environment.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high‑performance applications.
  • Own end‑to‑end product lifecycle — from architecture to production support.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues ensuring continuous availability.
  • Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools and practices.
  • Implement cloud-native architectures and deploy services on AWS.
  • Containerize and orchestrate services using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Optimize system performance, reliability, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, QA, and Operations.
  • Work with virtualization technologies to support legacy and modern workloads.
  • Ensure adherence to best practices in coding, testing, security, and automation.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 8+ years of experience as a Staff Engineer or Senior Software Engineer.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, C#).
  • Solid experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC).
  • Hands‑on expertise with Kubernetes and containerized application development.
  • Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, or similar).
  • Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Experience supporting and monitoring applications in a 24×7 production environment.
  • Familiarity with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch.
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, and performance tuning capabilities.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Desired Skills

  • Experience with microservices architecture.
  • Knowledge of networking fundamentals.
  • Exposure to SRE or platform engineering concepts.
  • Experience in Healthcare domain.
  • Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or equivalent.

Education

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Additional Information

**Relocation Assistance Provided: **Yes