Principal Software Engineer II - Metadata

Responsibilities

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
• Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for Metadata.
• Create and own architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and identify new projects.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability and performance.

Requirements

• 15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services.
• Deep and broad expertise in a variety of database systems internals including metadata management, clustering, compaction, catalogs, storage and replication.
• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Excellent understanding of systems infrastructure product development and concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance, reliability and scalability.
• Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred.
• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems at the cloud scale.
• Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations.
• BS in Computer Science; Advanced degree preferred.