Job summary

bp’s Innovation & Engineering (I&E) organization is the central organization for all software and platform development. We build all the technology that powers bp’s businesses, from upstream energy production to downstream energy delivery to our customers. We have a variety of teams depending on your areas of interest, including infrastructure and backend services through to customer-facing web and native applications. We encourage our teams to adapt quickly by using native AWS and Azure services, including serverless, and enable them to pick the best technology for a given problem. This is meant to empower our software and platform engineers while allowing them to learn and develop themselves.

Entity:

Innovation & Engineering

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Summary:

bp’s Innovation & Engineering (I&E) organization is the central organization for all software and platform development. We build all the technology that powers bp’s businesses, from upstream energy production to downstream energy delivery to our customers. We have a variety of teams depending on your areas of interest, including infrastructure and backend services through to customer-facing web and native applications. We encourage our teams to adapt quickly by using native AWS and Azure services, including serverless, and enable them to pick the best technology for a given problem. This is meant to empower our software and platform engineers while allowing them to learn and develop themselves.

Job Description:

Responsibilities

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the software infrastructure and services that powers our technology platforms. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers and stakeholders to ensure that the platform is highly available, scalable, and secure. You will also be responsible for developing features, improving the platform's performance, and providing technical support to other teams.

• Design sophisticated software components, services, and platforms. You’ll write design documents and review them with your software engineering and architecture peers, incorporating and quickly iterating on the feedback
• Lead the delivery of your projects to production. You’ll follow best practices including writing high quality code, developing unit, functional, and performance tests, and creating end-to-end deployment pipelines to production to maintain a fast velocity
• Integrate your software with other distributed systems and shared APIs across bp. You’ll work closely with partner teams to help evolve their systems to make all of our services more re-usable and resilient
• Partner closely with multi-functional teams including product management, data science, and UX design
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends
• Hire and develop others by mentoring junior software engineers and peers, and proactively sharing your expertise and interests with others
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of best practices 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve platform-related issues
• Support internal and external audit teams to prepare for and participate in security, software licensing, and regulatory audits, ensuring that all necessary documentation and evidence is available and accurate
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement new controls and procedures to address identified compliance gaps or risks

Technical Skills we need from you

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems or equivalent work experience
• Master ability to adapt to new technologies and processes, and be able to work independently and as part of a team
• Master in problem-solving, with the ability to analyze complex problems, identify root causes, and develop creative and effective solutions
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with your peers through to senior leaders. You should be able to engage and influence others to collect requirements, describe what you’re doing, work through problems, and find productive solutions
• Self-starter, able to handle ambiguity, navigate uncertainty, identify risks, and find the right people and tools to get the job done

Software Skills

• Master in at least one programming language (C#, Python, or TypeScript) developing cross-platform solutions. You should be competent in the use of data structures, algorithms, runtime complexity, API design, as well as unit and functional test methodologies.
• Master in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects
• Master in systems design
• Master in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects
• Extensive experience in software development, with a focus on platform or service engineering
• Master in software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations
• Master in designing and building complex software systems end-to-end which have been optimally delivered and operated in production. You should understand security and privacy best practices as well as how to properly monitor, log, and alarm production systems

Infrastructure Skills

• Master in building and scaling infrastructure services using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
• Master in the understanding of using core cloud application infrastructure services including identity platforms, networking, storage, databases, containers, and serverless
• Master in troubleshooting large-scale distributed production systems
• Experience working on production systems. You’ll have supported these production systems through on-call rotations

Database Skills

• Competent knowledge of databases, such as relational, graph, document, and key-value
• Master ability in data modeling and database design

Skills that set you apart

• Possess a passion for mentoring and coaching engineers in both technical and soft skills

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.).  If you would like to request an accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.

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