Sr Software Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Sr Software Engineer with expertise in integrating various industrial systems and protocols in a manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Go, Python, Kubernetes, and AWS. This role will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust integration solutions to optimize our manufacturing processes. Additionally, the candidate will be expected to provide detailed design/architecture for connecting manufacturing data systems, ensuring seamless communication and data exchange across the organization.

Location: Atlanta, GA Onsite/Hybrid.

This role is not available to anyone who is currently a VISA holder. Not eligible for VISA Sponsorship

Our Team

GP's Software Engineering & Integration team's core competency is designing, building, delivering, and maintaining custom software solutions and integrations. We recently initiated our transformation journey, creating functions and capabilities that enable engineers to have major impacts on GP's business performance. We seek to build functionality once, so engineers are encouraged to re-use their peers' work and modify them to meet new use cases. We focus on delivering profitable business outcomes by partnering with business analysts, delivery leaders, and quality engineers to build the right solution at the right speed.

What You Will Do

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of custom connectors and integrations using GoLang or Python to connect disparate systems and devices
• Build and optimize integrations across industrial protocol (eg, OPC-UA, MQTT, MODBUS) and system protocols (RESTm, SOAP, etc.)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and define integration strategies
• Enable seamless data exchange between systems, including real-time streaming platforms (Kinesis, NATS, Kafka)
• Contribute to source code management and collaboration using GitHub
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues to ensure system reliability and uptime
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in industrial automation, integration and cloud-native architectures

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Programming experience in Go or Python
• Experience deploying APIs and microservices in containerized environments using Kubernetes
• Experience with scripting languages (JavaScript and PowerShell)
• Experience integrating AWS services (e.g., S3, Lambda, RDS, EC2) to support cloud-native architectures
• Experience with modern integration strategies and best practices
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with API Gateway, networking principles, and security best practices
• Hands-on experience with DevOps and automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps) and modern CI/CD practices
• Experience with real-time data integration using streaming platforms (NATS, Kafka, Kinesis)
• Experience with industrial automation protocols (Modbus, UPC-UA, and MQTT)
• Proven experience and ability in collaborating with business stakeholders and technical teams to design integration solutions

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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