Java Software Engineer - Observability & Resiliency

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Software Engineer to join our Cloud Enablement team at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area.

Our mission: partner with software engineering teams across the company to guide their technology transformations, accelerate cloud adoption, and define standards and best practices that raise the bar for how Garmin builds software. We influence all types of development teams — from customer-facing applications and internal tools to manufacturing engineering systems — all sharing a common goal: delivering reliability and scalability for their business domain.

As part of this team, your role will combine application development, support, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering practices to help ensure development teams improve their reliability and observability posture.

Essential Functions

• Provides solutions for complex software problems for existing applications
• Maintains, improves, and extends existing software with limited assistance from other associates
• Works collaboratively/professionally in a team environment to determine general approach and specific solutions to technical problems and achieve goals
• Reviews complex tasks for soundness of technical judgment and overall adequacy/accuracy
• Works with Garmin IT Analysts to develop/implement unit and system testing processes for single or multi system projects
• Responsible for planning small/medium-sized projects or tasks, makes substantial contributions to determining the feasibility of goals/objectives, and provides reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques
• Performs technical root cause analysis and outlines corrective action for given problems
• Serves as a mentor to less experienced IT Software Engineers (Software Engineer 1)
• Demonstrates proficient use/knowledge of established standards/procedures, learns how to use/apply engineering tools as needed, and documents work thoroughly and in an organized manner
• Understands change is important and adapts well, demonstrates quality/effectiveness in work documentation and organization, and participates in project definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs

Basic Qualifications

All Teams

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related field AND a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Must possess programming experience using Java/Spring Boot frameworks and AI agents.
• Understanding of APIs, distributed applications, databases, and modern application architecture
• Demonstrated ability to learn and understand secure coding practices
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Interest in SRE, DevOps, reliability engineering, and observability

Desired Qualifications

• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
• Previous experience working in a team environment
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum team environment

Experience with Kubernetes and CI/CD platforms

Experience using App Monitoring tools (Splunk, Datadog, Azure Insights, Splunk, Grafana, OTEL, etc)

Azure or AWS experience

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits