Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first - developing creative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. **A Day in the Life** As a Software Engineer II, you will be part of the data streaming operations team responsible for designing, operating, and integrating the real-time message platform centered around Confluent Kafka. Responsibilities include platform reliability, scalability, security, platform evolution, and developer experience. This position will participate in on call support (on need basis) to ensure platform availability and operational excellence. You will focus on automated deployment of infrastructure through CI/CD pipelines and self service workflows for application teams. You will work directly with application teams as the subject matter expert to provide guidance on event-driven design & best-practices. **Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.** + Work independently under limited supervision to own and operate data streaming platforms. + Manage Confluent Cloud-based Kafka environments to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance. + Support self-managed Kafka clusters on Kubernetes. + Implement and maintain supporting components such as Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Flink, & Tableflow. + Set up proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure platform uptime and reliability using Dynatrace, Prometheus, & Grafana, & ELK. + Lead troubleshooting of production incidents and perform root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews. + Use platform metrics and usage statistics to guide capacity planning and infrastructure right-sizing. + Build automation and Infrastructure as Code to streamline Kafka provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management through CI/CD pipelines. + Automate routine administrative tasks. + Partner with application, security, and cloud infrastructure teams to align platform capabilities with business needs. **Required Knowledge and Experience:** + 4-7 years of IT experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. + Relevant Experience: Minimum 1 year hands-on experience in **Platform Engineering** (not application development experience) working with **Apache Kafka** or **Confluent Cloud** in production. + Minimum 3 year of experience working with any of these cloud providers - **AWS / Azure / GCP.** + Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools like **Terraform** or **AWS CloudFormation** or **Azure ARM/Bicep.** + Experience with source control systems such as **Git/GitHub.** + Working experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices. + Experience deploying to Kubernetes. + Basic understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architecture. + Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues.
+ Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams and geographies. + Ability to take business and technical requirements and work independently to deliver scalable solutions. + Self-motivated mindset and willingness to embrace challenges and maintain initiative. **Nice to have:** + Experience working with **AWS native tools** such as IAM Roles, Secrets Manager, S3, Lambda, Route53, & VPC's. + Experience developing event driven applications. + Previous healthcare or regulated-industry experience is a plus **Physical Job Requirements** The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.? ? **Recruitment Fraud Alert** We are aware of phishing scams targeting job seekers. Please keep the following in mind: Apply only through official Medtronic channels. All legitimate Medtronic recruiting communications come from approved Medtronic platforms and official @medtronic.com email addresses. Medtronic will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information (such as bank account or Social Security details) during early stages of the hiring process. Any such requests are not legitimate. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Medtronic, do not respond, click links, or open attachments. If you have any questions, concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication alleged to have been made by or on behalf of Medtronic, please contact us immediately at
[email protected] . ? **Benefits & Compensation** **Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package** 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. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP). We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D; lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. **We change lives** . Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes.
Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That's who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. **We build extraordinary solutions as one team** . With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. **This life-changing career is yours to engineer** . By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will... + **Build** a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world + **Grow** a career reflective of your passion and abilities + **Connect** to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning These commitments set our team apart from the rest: **Experiences that put people first** . Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need. **Life-transforming technologies** . No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms. **Better outcomes for our world** . Here, it's about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls. **Insight-driven care** . Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care 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. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting?is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support. This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees) . For updates on job applications, please go to the candidate login page and sign in to check your application status. If you need assistance completing your application please email
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📌 AI/Data Science Engineer II (Nanakaramguda)
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