Director, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering
Careers that change lives
When you join Medtronic Diabetes, you become a member of our global team of dreamers and doers who are working tirelessly to reduce the burdens for people living with diabetes. Diabetes is a terrible disease because you cannot take a break from it. One in 10 people are diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and another 2.8M develop insulin intensive Type 2 Diabetes. Typically, someone living with diabetes is faced with hundreds of decisions a day: I’m hungry, what do I eat, how many carbs are in this meal, how much insulin do I take…
Medtronic Diabetes is working on next generation sensors, Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM), insulin delivery medical devices and software to alleviate this burden. The innovations in the diabetes field are at the nexus of closed loop automation, medical sensors, and digital experience.
Medtronic’s overall mission is to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. That’s why our employees experience a sense of meaning, blended with diverse career opportunities in a dynamic, purpose-driven environment. The Diabetes operating unit aims to change the way people manage their disease. Together, we will transform diabetes care by expanding access, integrating care, and improving outcomes so people living with diabetes can enjoy greater freedom and better health.
Click here to see an overview of the products in our Diabetes product portfolio.
MEDTRONIC
At Medtronic, we value what makes you unique. Be part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.
Join a diverse team of innovators who bring their worldview, their unique backgrounds, and their individual life experiences to work every day. It’s no accident —we work hard to cultivate a workforce that reflects our patients and partners. We believe it’s the only way to drive healthcare forward and remain a global leader in medical technology and solutions.
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A DAY IN THE LIFE
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This new role will build capability to ensure that Medtronic Diabetes’ Cloud services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. You will keep a watchful eye on our system capacity and performance, focus on optimizing existing systems, build infrastructure, and eliminate work through automation.
As the Director, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for Medtronic Diabetes, you will build capability across the organization to solve problems to enable a consistent and positive customer experience and business growth. You will apply strong engineering thought leadership and deep knowledge of infrastructure and software development to drive scalable and highly reliable software systems for Medtronic Diabetes digital platforms.
Job Responsibilities
- Build SRE capability across the Medtronic Diabetes software engineering organization to deliver highly reliant apps and a positive customer experience. Build team over time and integrate SRE into product development process.
- Work cross-functionally in partnership with Software Development teams to guide product development teams to build reliable and durable software systems.
- Partner with architects, developers, DevOps and RunOps engineers to ensure that Medtronic Diabetes cloud services have reliability and uptime appropriate to users’ needs and a fast rate of improvement while managing capacity and performance.
- Manage, innovate, and create programs, new software, and analytics that drive improvements to the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Medtronic Diabetes digital platforms.
- Drive end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
- Build overall strategy for Medtronic Diabetes SRE capabilities. Inspire innovation and new thinking to maximize long-term product feature velocity while meeting reliability targets.
Must Have: Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or related discipline and a minimum of 15 years relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with 7+ years of managerial experience
- Breadth and Depth in Site Reliability Engineering. 5+ years experience in Released Product Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Software Engineering.
Nice to Have:
- Master’s degree in in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
- Demonstrated organization leadership experience. Demonstrated success influencing and building SRE capability across a matrix organization
- Experience with system design, algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design, or in Unix/Linux systems, IP networking, performance, and application issues.
- Experience with technical deep-dives into code, networking, operating systems, and storage.
This position is in the greater Los Angeles area, with relocation available to qualified candidates. We may be open to candidates based elsewhere in the US who are open to regular travel to our facilities.
About Medtronic
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.
The provided base salary range is used nationally (except in certain CA locations). The rate offered is compliant with federal/local regulations and may vary by experience, certification/education, market conditions, location, etc.
Executive Level Roles: Base pay is based on numerous factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage. Learn more about our benefits here.
MIP Eligible: This position is eligible for a short-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) here.
LTI Eligible: This position is eligible for an annual long-term incentive plan. Learn more about Medtronic Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) here.
Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)
EEO STATEMENT
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
DISCLAIMER
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position.
