Sr Software Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we're guided by a shared purpose - helping people be their best in the moments that matter - and we live up to our purpose every day by solving for safer. Because people can only be their best when they not only feel safe, but are safe. We're solving for safer by building the best possible technologies across every part of our safety and security ecosystem. That's mission -critical communications devices and networks, AI-powered video security & access control and the ability to unite voice, video and data in a single command center view. We're solving for safer by connecting public safety agencies and enterprises, enabling the collaboration that's critical to connect those in need with those who can help. The work we do here matters.

Department OverviewAt Motorola Solutions we are helping solve some of the biggest challenges facing public safety organizations today. The Cloud Platform Engineering organization builds software solutions that enable other products at Motorola Solutions to meet their customers needs. Our goals are to help public safety professionals easily store and retrieve all the information they need to be able to do their jobs safely and successfully. We work with cutting edge AI in video, audio and analytics combined with advanced modern search technologies to deliver on our mission.
Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Data Platform Search team, you will become a catalyst to our mission to increase the value and discoverability of the data generated by our public safety applications. You will help us improve our processes for collecting and processing an ever-increasing amount of crime-report data, audio and video data. You will help the team to be an enabling partner for applications--both internal and external--to discover, search, catalog, and analyze relationships within this data with a focus on search. The ultimate goal of our team is to help other applications in Solving for Safer (Motorola Solutions is solving for safer) with search.

You are expected to have a deep practical knowledge of software engineering and implementing best practices. You'll have the opportunity and expectation to mentor other software engineers. You will work with the team to ensure that the team's velocity and engagement is healthy. You'll work with partner teams to nail down requirements and build out and implement plans to meet those requirements. Architecting, designing, deploying, testing, writing and reviewing software systems down to the code level is a daily expectation. You'll be expected to join the team's on call rotation servicing issues occurring during and outside of normal business hours

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science, Engineering or related degree) and 5+ years of object-oriented programming experience or Masters degree and 3+ years of experience

• 2+ years experience developing robust search software systems using ElasticSearch (or equivalent system)

Skills you need to bring:

• A passion for problem solving, writing quality code, and designing effective systems

• Strong background in modern software development practices, principles, and tools including C#/.NET or Java, and PowerShell

• Knowledge and working experience developing REST based and Messaging based APIs and implementing microservice principles and architectures in cloud based environments such as kubernetes

• Proven ability to ensure software quality through following industry best practices such as Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Pair Programming, and Refactoring

• Understands DORA metrics for Software Delivery Performance and how to positively affect those metrics

• Strong ability to design comprehensive solutions at both high, inter-application/inter-team levels, and at lower, implementation levels

• Solid ability to mentor and train other developers and provide technical leadership to the team

• Excellent communication skills. Able to convey more complex technical concepts to less-technical audiences such as senior management through presentation and discussion

• Able to break down complex projects into small incremental daily deliverables

• Background in building Search Systems that allow users to quickly get to the data they need

Experience that would be very nice:

• CI/CD with Azure DevOps and/or Github Actions.

• Data streaming and event ingestion services. (Kafka, RabbitMQ, EventHub, ServiceBus, etc.)

• Backend REST framework experience in Spring Boot and ASP.NET Core

• Kubernetes

• Node JS

• C4 Architecture diagrams

• Domain Driven Development

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Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced

Referral Payment PlanYes

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please email [email protected].