Principal Software Engineer

Your Impact

As a Principal Software engineer on the Data Platform team, you will

• Architect and implement scalable ETL and ELT processes to handle data ranging from gigabytes to petabytes in size
• Design and develop distributed streaming pipelines using Java multithreading and Apache Beam frameworks
• Design and optimize data storage and indexing solutions for both real-time streaming and batch processing applications
• Ensure your team delivers high output and mentor other engineers
• Continuously seek ways to make a substantial impact on your team and the broader engineering organization
• Help drive projects from requirements to complete design and implementation
• Anticipate challenges of architecting at scale, align architecture vision with strategic initiatives

Requirements

Your Experience

• 7+ years of industry experience as a professional software engineer building writing back end software
• Proficiency in designing and developing stream/event-processing architectures using technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Storm, Spark, or their equivalents
• Excitement to dig in, prototype, build, test, and see projects through to production - results driven, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to balance shipping new products and features with addressing technical debt and investments in architecture and infrastructure
• Solid understanding of various methods and tradeoffs for handling concurrency
• Strong familiarity with databases, data modeling, and performance optimization
• Experience with and opinions about API design and distributed backend systems
• Familiarity with Java
• These will fetch you bonus points
• Have expertise with any of the following: BigQuery, PostgreSQL, BigTable, BigQuery, Apache Beam, database profiling, Terraform
• Have experience using and enhancing CI/CD systems