Principal Software Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers and Product Managers in a globally distributed team to define functionality and design of next-generation streaming data platform.
• Drive long-term product and technology strategy and innovation, leading industry trends.
• Drive future state architecture for Dynamic Tables and other key systems within data pipelines.
• Design and build highly reliable software to meet and exceed needs of largest customers.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to senior management and multiple departments.
• Ensure operational readiness of services, meeting commitments on reliability, availability, and performance.

Requirements

• 14+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
• Experience building enterprise-grade, reliable and trustworthy software or services.
• Deep knowledge of foundational data systems and ability to innovate without constraints of current technology.
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
• Strong oral and written English language skills.

Nice-to-Haves

• Designing stream processing systems: Flink, Beam, Spark Streaming, etc.
• Analytic database technologies, especially internal design and implementation.
• Developing database or distributed systems internals.
• Large scale distributed systems, transactions and consistency models.
• Implementing multi-tenant systems with focus on reliability, performance, isolation, and security.
• Designing and implementing systems for public or private clouds.