Software Engineer II

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE is a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate and serve consumers more directly and personally.  Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

The following are a High Availability Engineer's responsibility for this role but is not limited to:

* Plan and lead chaos engineering exercises to expose weaknesses in Nike production systems, uncover any gaps in monitoring and observability, and put in place solutions to lower the effects of any failures on consumers

* Partner with infrastructure and application engineering teams to ensure solutions meet high availability/disaster recovery requirements, including gap identification, assessment, and remediation

* Assess current disaster recovery strategy, impacts, and risks including business, legal, and IT perspectives

* Propose various application design patterns and develop disaster recovery scenarios/resilience requirements

* Act as a subject matter expert to system owners on industry standards and best practices for disaster recovery

* Lead technical recovery efforts in the event of a site outage

Within the Reliability Engineering our goal is to provide technical solutions to complex production problems with a focus on reduction of incident and problem toil, speeding detection and recovery of critical incidents through observability and continuous improvement through operational health measurement and sharing.

Requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related field; MBA a plus. Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience.

Ability to lead assessments of applications and infrastructure components to identify gaps related to high availability/disaster recovery

* 2-4 years of software development experience

* 2 - 4 years' experience in building cloud-based enterprise systems, ideally on AWS.

* Proficient in Java 8 and newer

* Proficient with JavaScript on frontend (React, Angular, etc.) and backend ) components.

* Demonstrable knowledge of Linux operating system internals, TCP/IP, filesystems, disk/storage technologies

* Basic understanding of DNS, Networking, Virtualization

* Experience with Docker and/or serverless patterns.

* Expertise in designing and building scalable Micro Services

* Expertise in web and web-app patterns

* Expertise in NoSQL datastore systems to build highly scalable solutions

* Experience with expertise in other modern enterprise languages (functional or other – Scala, Python, Golang, etc.)

* Experience with securing Restful APIs and Apps using OAuth and OpenID Connect and JWT

* Good understanding of async/non-blocking Restful APIs approaches and frameworks

* Experience within messaging (pub-sub) patterns

* Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills

* Basic understanding of most of the following: ServiceNow, Jira, Jenkins, GitHub, Splunk, New Relic, or equivalent Application Performance Monitoring Tool

* Collaborate with and consult Architecture, Security, Privacy, and other subject matter experts within Nike

* Act as the subject matter expert for resilience and high availability of consumer facing (e-commerce) systems/applications
* Communicate to leadership the status of recovery time (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO) for critical systems