Hybrid Lead Software Engineer

at Caterpillar Inc.

• Job title: Lead Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $128,470 - $208,770 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, ERP, IoT, Microservices, Python, SQL, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Senior Monitoring & Operations Software Engineer at Caterpillar focused on automation for system reliability and monitoring. Leading cross-organizational projects and mentoring junior engineers in software engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Technical Lead, influence and contribute significantly to 4 to 5 projects across organizations during a typical month
• Generally autonomous in planning day-to-day work
• Self-identify and implement cost savings ideas with little direction
• Develop automation to realize monitoring and automation enabling issue detection and correction
• Identify and implement test cases that show the correctness of the implementation
• Document design and implementation details with sufficient quality to enable future enhancement efforts
• Implement monitoring, alarms, runbooks to enable support of microservices operations
• Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results
• Provide technical direction to more Jr individuals; lead a small virtual team; delegate tasks, manage workloads, ensure work is completed, mitigate risk, and report on status
• Work with managers, engineers, end consumers, and support teams to capture monitoring requirements.
• Help to break down large Initiatives into Features, EPICs and Stories that make up the following type of efforts; risk remediation, audits, new application onboarding, modification of existing, help triage break/fix incidents, and consumption reporting
• Communicate to consumers & leadership of (un)planned service outages
• Manage and participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems
• Create and maintain documentation for support processes, tools and systems

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with a focus on Synthetic Monitoring and Reporting.
• Ability to lead software engineering projects from requirement to release
• Demonstratable proficiency programming in Python, .NET, PowerShell, PowerBI, RESTful APIs
• Microsoft Azure (AppInsights, Monitor, LightHouse, SQL DB, Log Analytics, KQL, etc..)
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 (ERP, Contact Center, etc..)
• Microsoft Power Platform (PowerBI, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, Connectors, etc..)
• Azure Certifications such as Developer, DevOPS Engineer, AI Engineer, IoT Developer

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement