Senior Staff Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you'll work on the cutting edge of cloud technology as you scope and lead complex technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iterate and scale. You will collaborate closely with architects and technical product managers to translate overarching system architecture and product requirements into cohesive, high-quality software solutions. In this role, you will lead the design and development of cloud-native services that deliver computing capabilities—including servers, databases, storage, networking, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet and at the edge. You'll collaborate across teams to build high-performance, scalable, and secure systems that meet customer needs and drive innovation. Your leadership will emphasize quality, test-driven development, and adherence to sound software engineering practices, using industry best practices to maintain a high standard of excellence across all team deliverables. Additionally, you will leverage Generative AI (Gen AI) to drive agile development and releases. This role is located in Bellevue, WA working on a hybrid basis, with 3 days/week in the office.

Roles / Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed systems and services across public cloud and edge environments, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering teams. Lead design and code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
• Work with product managers, architects, and infrastructure teams to translate customer requirements into robust cloud-based solutions.
• Build services using modern cloud technologies (e.g., AWS Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, Azure Functions, GCP Cloud Run), emphasizing microservice, containerization, and event-driven architectures.
• Engineer systems for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource utilization. Use profiling, benchmarking, and telemetry to continuously improve service performance.
• Implement secure coding practices, integrate with IAM and encryption services, and design for fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
• Leverage Generative AI tools to accelerate development cycles, improve code quality, and enhance developer productivity.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• 10 years of experience

Desired Qualifications

• Technical Expertise
• Ability to analyze, design, and develop a software solution roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state of the business.
• Working knowledge of technology choices and related cost implications; experience with complex solution configurations.
• Knowledgeable of full range of solution catalog within a business unit and able to discuss overall solution at depth.
• Experience sustaining operational stability through various life cycle phases (planning, implementation, steady state, de-commissioning)
• AWS Expert, certification preferred
• Strong knowledge of Design Patterns, Java programming language and Unit Testing frameworks
• Hands-on experience in utilizing Spring Framework (Core, MVC, Integration and Data) and Spring boot
• Expert on Kafka and/or related messaging/ frameworks, ActiveMQ
• Hands-on experience in web services (REST), EJBs
• SQL, Hibernate on Database such as Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Experience with Containers - Docker/Kubernetes, Helm
• Business Acumen
• Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps. Maps technology trends to internal vision. Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition. Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices
• Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques, including ROI, SWOT, and Gap analyses. Able to clearly articulate the business drivers relevant to a given initiative.
• Leadership
• Influences through others; pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.
• Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.
• Personal Attributes
• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. For U.S. based positions only, the pay range for this position is $150,880.00-$226,320.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.