Software Development Evangelist – Core Engineering

New York, New York
PIMCO
About Us:

We are PIMCO, a leading global asset management firm. We manage investments and develop solutions across the full spectrum of asset classes, strategies and vehicles: fixed income, equities, commodities, asset allocation, ETFs, hedge funds and private equity. PIMCO is one of the largest investment managers, actively managing more than $2.2 trillion in assets for clients around the world. PIMCO has over 3,070 employees in 22 offices globally. PIMCO is recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

PIMCO is one of the world’s premier fixed income investment managers with thousands of professionals around the world united in a single purpose: creating opportunities for our clients in every environment. Since 1971, we have brought innovation and expertise to our partnership with the institutions, financial advisors and millions of individual investors who entrust us with their assets. We aspire to cultivate performance and leadership through empowering our people, diversity of thought, and a commitment to an inclusive culture that engages in our global communities.

Position Description:

How does Technology fit in with this?
We aim to deliver to our investment professionals accurate information, on time, every time that enable them to make decisions in an increasingly complex world.

We provide trade execution capabilities, research data, analytics calculations, concise reports across a diverse array of financial investments that enable us to invest wisely and explain concisely to our clients what risk/reward decisions are being made.

What does Core Engineering do?
We provide the building blocks, platforms and self-service tools that enable high availability, operationally resilient and scalable applications to be built to enable our business to deliver value to our clients. Quite simply, we make it easier for other people to operate. As part of this team, you will join a talented group of technology professionals who enjoy taking on challenges, such as:

• Own the engagement with teams as they adopt AWS
• Solve the complexity around building horizontally scalable services.
• Build cloud native mindshare across company
• Partner with business leaders to find opportunities and value from cloud computing
• Ensure our cloud deployments are secure and robust
• Establish best practices for our cloud foundation
• If you want to be part of the engineering revolution at PIMCO we would love to talk to you!

Position Description:

• Ideal candidate works with developers, infrastructure, security, and platform teams to create delightful experience for developers.
• Build and nurture an internal “community ecosystem”
• Engage with developers and drive consistency in the development patterns
• Influence – Advocate the needs of developer community, and bring their feedback back to infrastructure, security, platform teams for continuous improvement
• Code – create code samples and demo apps to enable developers
• Write – Write/Edit documentation, blog posts and tutorials. Ensure the documentation is relevant and discoverable

We have latitude to hire this role in Austin, Newport Beach, or Remote.

Position Requirements:

• You are technically adept, and comfortable with one or more general purpose programming language – Java, .NET, Python
• You have 5 years of experience as a Software Developer, Architect, Technical Advocate, Community manager or Consultant
• You have a background in supporting developer communities, open source projects or user groups
• You have the ability to effectively collaborate in a global, matrixed organization – This role is highly cross-functional
• You have demonstrated empathy for developers.
• Your experience in popular open source frameworks (Spring, Steeltoe, Django) is a plus

Benefits:

PIMCO is committed to offering a comprehensive portfolio of employee benefits designed to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Benefits vary by location but may include:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life insurance and travel coverage
• 401(k) (defined contribution) retirement savings, retirement plan, pension contribution from your first day of employment
• Work/life programs such as flexible work arrangements, parental leave and support, employee assistance plan, commuter benefits, health club discounts, and educational/CFA certification reimbursement programs
• Community involvement opportunities with The PIMCO Foundation in each PIMCO office