Senior Principal Software Engineer at Medtronic in Mounds View, Minnesota

Job Description:

Sr. Principal Software Engineer

Careers that Change Lives

We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It's no accident -we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it's the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.

The Cardiovascular Portfolio Group brings all of our cardiac and vascular businesses together into one cross-functional, collaborative operating unit to employ the full breadth of our talent, technologies, products, services, and solutions to address the needs of customers and patients across the globe. Cardiac Rhythm Management offers devices and therapies to treat abnormal heart rhythms, as well as cardiac diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

We are looking for a talented Sr. Principal Level Software Engineer for our Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure (CRHF) Software division. This engineer will help us drive software delivery as part of an agile development team. The right person will be an application developer with technical leadership skills in Python, Flask, Kafka, Rest APIs (experience with Swagger is a bonus), and NOSQL databases (HBase preferred). Security and TensorFlow expertise would be nice to have.

Day in the Life

• Lead, Design and develop high integrity software for medical devices
• Use mastery to define software standards for medical devices across our product portfolio
• Act as a mentor for other engineers eager to learn skills where you are a subject matter expert (SME)
• Create an architectural strategy at scale, short and long term for a complex ecosystem
• Design, build, and test applications, distributed computing, and high-performance computing in Global Cloud Infrastructure as a Service environment
• Join Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) meetings to review product design changes
• Support design reviews to ensure requirements have been met and risks have been mitigated
• Work closely with the product owner and scrum master to complete sprint planning, actively participate in scrum ceremonies and deliver results each sprint.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• B.S./B.A.in Computer Engineering/Science or technically related
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience

• Hands-on experience with 'Big Data' technologies like Kafka, Elastic, and Hortonworks
• Programming/testing expertise - Including Python, Flask, or similar language
• Experience with REST APIs (Swagger is a bonus)

• Experience with NOSQL databases (HBase preferred)
• Experience with version control systems with Git such as BitBucket or Azure DevOps
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, DataDog, etc.
• Working knowledge of securing cloud apps- use of AWS security controls (KMS, guard duty, API GW, etc) - may include threat modeling, general vulnerability management within consumed 3rd party components, static code analysis experience, Stretch (previous pen testing experience), use of and familiarity with OpenIDConnect/OAuth2
• TensorFlow knowledge and experience is a bonus

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Jan 26, 2021
• Travel: No