Sr Principal Engineer Software (Cortex Backend Engineering)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Work regularly across teams as an acknowledged technical leader in the organization.
• Drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation as project lead or mentor thereof.
• Lead efforts to align planned work across the product in collaboration with product management, UX design, and fellow engineering stakeholders.
• Utilize your big-picture perspective to spot existing and impending problems, then work with senior engineers and leadership across the department to analyze and solve them.
• Proactively spot, articulate, and mitigate risks in ongoing and planned projects to ensure smooth execution and high output, including providing mentorship, communicating with stakeholders, or assisting in project progress.
• Mentor engineers across the department.
• Regularly provide cross-team technical collaboration and consultation.
• Design, build, and optimize data models and queries for speed and scale, using data storage technologies like MySQL and BigQuery.
• Design and build business logic and API endpoints using Python and Flask.
• Design and build backend services using Go.

Requirements

• 14+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on cloud-native application development, at large organizations or innovative startups.
• Strong programming skills in one of Python, Go, or Java, with experience in building distributed systems.
• 8+ years of experience in cloud technologies like ElasticSearch, Pubsub, etc.
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities. Isolate issues found during testing and verify bug fixes once they are resolved.
• Experience with cloud development (REST APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications.
• Experience with building and delivering services and workflows at scale, leveraging microservices architectures.
• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distributed systems, and load balancing.
• Experience with agile processes and working with full stack product development teams deployed on the cloud at scale.
• Experience as a hands-on tech lead / architect.
• Can-do attitude and ability to make data-driven trade-off decisions.
• High energy and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related technical degree.

Nice to Have

• Strong understanding and applied knowledge of Kubernetes architecture deployments (such as Ansible, Kubespray, Helm, CDK8s, k8s managed and unmanaged) and a variety of Kubernetes distributions such as Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE2).
• Experience with cloud-native storage solutions (e.g., Ceph, Rook) with a proven ability to develop and manage custom Kubernetes controllers or operators.
• Strong understanding of principles of DevSecOps, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related technical degree.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation depends on qualifications, experience, and work location, with a starting base salary between $170,000 - $277,000 per year.
• Potential inclusion of restricted stock units and a bonus.
• Employee benefits are described in detail on their website.