Bayer · 4 days ago
Staff Software Engineer (Go/Golang)
Chesterfield, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$119K/yr - $179K/yrBayer is a company focused on developing agricultural solutions for a sustainable future. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Go/Golang) to be a key member of a data engineering team, responsible for creating distributed analysis capabilities and mentoring other engineers while innovating software solutions for complex scientific datasets.
BiotechnologyChemicalHealth CareLife SciencePharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Be a critical senior member of a data engineering team focused on creating distributed analysis capabilities around a large variety of datasets
Take pride in software craftsmanship, apply a deep knowledge of algorithms and data structures to continuously improve and innovate
Work with other top-level talent solving a wide range of complex and unique challenges that have real world impact
Mentor and guide other engineers on areas of expertise
Explore relevant technology stacks to find the best fit for each dataset
Lead technical initiatives, communicating your technical vision and strategy to the broader organization
Project your talent into relevant projects. Strength of ideas trumps position on an org chart
Pursue opportunities to present our work at relevant technical conferences
Qualification
Required
Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Has shipped multiple generations of a software product, demonstrating long-term technical ownership and evolution
A track record of shipping and maintaining multiple major product releases written in Go
A track record of designing, building, and maintaining multiple product releases of data-intensive APIs using a RESTful approach
Extensive experience in system design and architecture for large-scale, distributed applications
Experience with stream processing using Apache Kafka
Experience with designing effective Unit Testing and Test Driven Development patterns
Familiarity with creating and maintaining containerized application deployments with a platform like Docker
Familiarity with developing and deploying to and working with Kubernetes cluster infrastructure
A proven ability to build and maintain cloud based infrastructure on a major cloud provider like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform
Experience data modeling for large scale databases, either relational or NoSQL
Skilled communicator with proficiency in English language, capable of connecting with diverse individuals, actively listening to their needs, and supporting meaningful analysis for better decision-making
Preferred
Experience with protocol buffers and gRPC
Experience with: Google Cloud Platform, Apache Beam and or Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Kubernetes Engine
Experience working with scientific datasets, or a background in the application of quantitative science to business problems
Bioinformatics experience, especially large scale storage and data mining of variant data, variant annotation, and genotype to phenotype correlation
Benefits
Health care
Vision
Dental
Retirement
PTO
Sick leave
Company
Bayer
Bayer is a life science company that specializes in the areas of health care and agriculture.
Founded in 1863
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$9.34BKey Investors
Bank of AmericaBill & Melinda Gates FoundationTemasek Holdings
2025-09-26Post Ipo Debt· $331.5M
2024-12-06Post Ipo Debt· $5.29B
2022-11-08Grant· $12M
Leadership Team
Wolfgang Nickl
Member of the Board of Management of Bayer AG and CFO
Abi Abitorabi
VP, CGT Platform Implementation Lead
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