Applications Developer Engineer IIIRemote

Title: Applications Developer Engineer III

Location: Remote, US

Duration: 1 Year contract

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, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Within Reliability Engineering, our goal is to deliver technical solutions to complex production issues by reducing incident and problem toil, improving detection and recovery of critical events through strong observability, and driving continuous operational improvement. This includes advancing Chaos Engineering practices to validate system resilience, and strengthening high‑availability and disaster‑recovery (HADR) capabilities across the services we support.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

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

* Design and build solutions to provide capabilities for 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

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

* 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

 WHAT YOU BRING

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

* 7+ years of software development experience

* 3 - 5 years’ experience in building cloud-based enterprise systems, ideally on AWS

* Proficient in Java 11 and newer

* Proficient with JavaScript on frontend (React, Angular, etc.) and backend (Node.js) 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 – 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, Grafana or equivalent Application Performance Monitoring Tool 

Education

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.