Principal Software Engineer

About this role

Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products

Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items. Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers

8+ years of professional software development experience building scalable, distributed services with C++ or C#. Experience of both is a big plus. 5 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Design, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required

A passion for distributed systems and large-scale storage Experience with multi-threaded/parallel programming Solid REST API knowledge. Excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with strong testing, debugging and analytical skills Proven ability to plan, schedule and deliver quality software A determined engineer, someone who is disciplined about reliability, performance and architecture. Personable and positive: we want people with a high

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