Principal Software Engineer

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Position Overview

As we transition from a world of files to that of products powered by cloud data services, we’re building our core underlying cloud fabric and kernel that is comprised of massively scalable, always-on, globally-deployed cloud services that underpin our customer facing systems. These services will enable user experiences, workflows and integrations that will fundamentally change how our customers interact with data.

We are seeking a highly proficient Principal Software Engineer to help in building our data platform. The successful candidate should have a strong sense of ownership and be able to drive projects through completion. They should be well versed in modern cloud architecture and infrastructure development, and should have driven key technical initiatives to successful implementations.

Responsibilities

• Engage in technical and architectural discussions and decision making to shape the future of making things

• Lead planning, design, development, and testing of key features/functions delivered via applications and services

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements, understand use cases and build towards a cohesive technical strategy

• Build strategic partnerships with key cross-organizational teams to ensure that your application/service leverages capabilities offered by the platform

• Uphold team standards by championing engineering best practices

• Hands on software development for products that will perform at scale, be supportable, and be extensible

• Write code that is tested, readable, and maintainable

• Perform code reviews, evaluate implementations, and provide feedback for tool improvements

• Automate processes where possible and create new technologies when needed

• Cross-train and mentor teammates

• Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems

Minimum Qualifications

• Great team player with about 8 to 12 years of total industry experience

• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience in Java, Spring

• 5+ years of production experience in large-scale cloud-based Infrastructure (AWS preferred)

• 3+ years of experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, preferably DynamoDB and MySQL/Aurora

• Experience consuming, designing, and implementing REST APIs

• Working knowledge of build automation and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience working with container based solutions

• Experience building apps on AWS using services such as S3, DynamoDB, IAM, EC2, Cloudwatch and Lambda

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building GraphQL APIs and infrastructure

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

• Experience with Agile software development practices

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