Staff Software Engineer, Data

The worlds farmers make high-stakes decisions every season and the platforms built by Digital Farming Solutions Engineering are whatmakesthose decisions a Staff Engineer your roleis to ensure those platforms are architected for scale reliability and the demands of AI and machine learning at a global level.

You will set technical direction define howteamsapproach complex problems across precision agriculture data geospatial imagery and cloud infrastructure and resolve the systemic challenges that no single team cansolvealone. Equally important you will raise the engineering culture around you mentoring senior engineers into Staff-level leaders championing best practices andensuringthat what we build today is maintainable extensible and worthy of the mission it serves.

This role combines staff-level backend engineering leadership with deepexpertisein distributed systems data-intensive platforms and real-time architectures. You will define technical direction drive architectural quality and help teams solve systemic problems that no single team can solve alone while building cloud-native systems across AWS and/or GCP.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role are:

• Define and drive technical strategy for high-priority backend and data platform initiatives.

• Bring clarity to ambiguous high-complexity problems and translate them into actionable technical direction.

• Design and build highly scalable distributed systems across AWS and/or GCP.

• Build backend services microservices APIs and data-intensive processing systems.

• Develop event-drivenarchitecturesusing Kafka Kinesis Pub/Sub SQS/SNS.

• Architect streaming systems using Spark Flink or equivalent.

• Work with geospatial data including satellite imagery and precision agriculture datasets.

• Build systems handling petabyte-scale data and streaming-through-file patterns.

• Set engineering standards for reliability observability and code quality.

• Mentor senior engineers and drive technical excellence.

• Collaborate with product data science and platform teams.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent whopossessesthe following:

Required:

• BS or equivalent in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 8 years of experience in softwareanddata engineering.

• Proven history of ability to quickly learn new skills and technologies

• Expert knowledge in at least one modern backend programming language () with the ability to write understandable testable code with an eye towards maintainability.

• Experience with containerized and cloud-native development including technologies such as Docker and CI/CD-driven delivery workflows.

• Strong understanding of at least one public cloud platform.

• Experience building APIs and backend platforms for data products.

• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies and best practices.

• Experience using data and service observability techniques to drive support and improvements of systems

• Strong experience with event drivenarchitecturesusing messaging middleware (SQS JMS etc.)

• Proficiencywith managing CICD pipelines (e.g. GitLab Pipelines GitHub Actions)

• Experience building distributed systems in AWS and/or GCP.

• Experience supporting AI/ML data workflows through robust data pipelines.

• Strong systemdesign and problem-solving skills.

Preferred:

• Experience with Spark Flink DataflowDataproc.

• Experience with Docker and cloud-native development.

• Experience building scalable data platforms orlakehouses. (Strong Plus)

• Experience with layered geospatial data structures datarepresentations andprocessing frameworks (Strong Plus)

• Experience supporting ML/AI platforms such as feature stores or training/inference data pipelines. (StrongPlus )

• Experience building self-serve data platforms backend data products or APIs consumed by downstream engineering analytics or AI/ML workflows.(Strong Plus)

• Proven ability to develop other strong senior engineers into Staff engineersoperatingand leading their own initiatives with org-wide scope and high impact.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $117k-171k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant).Additionalbenefits include health care vision dental retirement PTO sick leaveetc.. This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicants location market data/ranges an applicants skills andpriorrelevant experience certain degrees and certifications and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 7/20/26.