Principal Software Engineer (IC4)

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will help lead our development efforts as we build the technology platform that will act as the central marketplace for our clouds software offerings. You will be a core contributor and one of the technical leads driving design and delivery of marketplace cloud services on a team of software engineers working to build, grow and scale our services.

The Marketplace team is responsible for building the services where our customers will go to purchase pre-configured software installations on the platform of their choice. The challenges here are across the entire stack, from back-end distributed services operating at cloud scale, to e-commerce transactions, to the actual web apps that users interact with. This is the perfect role for someone experienced in designing distributed systems, writing and debugging code across an entire stack (UI, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure services), championing operational excellence, mentoring junior engineers, driving development process improvements and excellence in a start-up style environment.

As a Principal Software Engineer on this team, your responsibilities will include leading system design of major features and services, mentoring other engineers, writing high quality code at a high rate of speed, improving the extent of our code coverage and the automation of our testing and deployments.

Basic Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
• 7+ years of software development experience
• Sound fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Experience with designing, launching and maintaining distributed systems at scale
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages like Java, Python, Golang etc.
• Expertise in building web applications, designing REST APIs and proficient in SQL, relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building an e-commerce platform
• Experience with virtualization and orchestration stacks
• Experience with building and deploying software services with cloud infrastructure providers is a plus
• Design and collaborate to build simple and effective UX