Job Description

Senior Lead Software Engineer
Do you want work on the cutting edge technology?
Do you enjoy being part of a successful team?
Join our Industrial & Energy technologies team
We design and manufacture a range of sensing instrumentation that are utilised in a vast array of market segments. Our Software teams design, prototype, validate, and certify next-generation industrial sensing systems. We collaborate with teams to solve complex technical challenges and design future innovations.
Take ownership for creating future enhancements
Baker Hughes is seeking for a hands?on Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of Ultrasonic NDT modules that deal with data throughput, parameter etc., Our Ultrasonic Testing (UT) software modules and reporting software that powers NDT inspection workflows. You will own the platform vision and implementation for module configuration, validation, permissions, data services, and report generation that integrate with UT instruments and downstream analytics. The role emphasizes microservices architecture, event?driven design, secure APIs, cloud reliability, and modern DevOps practices, adapted to 15-18 years of experience.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Defining and driving the North Star architecture of One UT Software Platform for USPAR (parameter models, configuration services, reporting pipeline, API gateways), ensuring performance, reliability, and security for UT inspection data.
• Leading the decomposition of legacy or monolithic components into cloud ready microservices with RESTful APIs, event streaming, and asynchronous workflows where appropriate.
• Establishing CI/CD standards, infrastructure automation, and guardrails that accelerate safe delivery (pipeline policies, quality gates, automated tests, environment promotion).
• Guiding design decisions for data models and storage (transactional, time series, and object stores) supporting high volume UT acquisitions and reporting use cases.
• Codifying the architecture principles for scalability resilience and secure-by-default services; publish reference implementation and golden paths for teams building the software platform modules.
• Selecting fit for purpose technologies (APIs, messaging, caches) and define SLOs/SLIs and error budgets with end to end observability to reduce MTTR.
• Partnering with security on IAM, secrets management, and policy as code; ensure compliance with relevant NDT/UT practices and internal quality systems.
• Mentoring junior engineers and collaborate with product, DevOps, QA, and instrument teams to ensure seamless hardware-software integration, high usability, and serviceability in the field.
• Leading design and code reviews; coach teams on domain driven design, API contracts, event choreography, and fault tolerant patterns.
• Translating USPAR architecture into roadmaps, risks, and measurable outcomes; communicate progress with clarity to leadership and cross functional stakeholders.

Fuel your passion
To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor's / Master's degree in computer science or related field from an accredited university or college.
• 15-18 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time designing and delivering microservices platforms, secure APIs, and cloud native / embedded systems at scale.
• Demonstrated leadership in modernizing systems, introducing event driven architectures, and institutionalizing CI/CD and IaC practices.
• Have proficiency in Languages/Frameworks: Strong backend engineering with C#/.NET (working knowledge required) and experience in one or more: Python, C++ for performance critical modules.
• Have Architecture experience: Microservices, JSON RPC, gRPC APIs, API, DDD, and asynchronous/event driven workflows.
• Have experience in Messaging & Caching: RabbitMQ, Redis; Light weight Queue; designing idempotent, resilient processing for high throughput data.
• Have experience in Security: IAM (e.g., Cognito/Keycloak), secrets management, and secure coding practices integrated into CI/CD.
• Domain: Familiarity with NDT/UT workflows, electronics parameter configuration, and inspection data reporting; ability to collaborate with UT domain experts on signal/data considerations.

Work in a way that works for you
We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working with us
Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.
Working for you
Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

Skills Required