Senior Principal Engineer (Java, AWS)

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  Lead the software architecture and system design of highly scalable, distributed, data intensive micro-services

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  Partner closely with product teams and leadership in defining strategic technical roadmap, communicate the strategy in various forums, and make it a reality

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  Demonstrate high levels of ownership and accountability and work closely with engineering teams to deliver consistently

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  Align the technical direction with business needs, leading the team to make the correct choices between short-term business opportunity and long-term technical vision

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  Champion adopting industry best practices to push the development standards within the team and in the larger organization

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  Help to hire, mentor engineers, help build fast-growing and high-performing teams

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent practical work experience

• 15+ years of experience in leading design of complex systems and hands-on development into Java, AWS

• 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership role for a large and distributed organization in designing systems and scaling them to millions of users

• Exposure to Information Retrieval with hands on experience in Lucene/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

• Exposure to Vector Databases and ML Infrastructure

• Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure platforms such as AWS

• Thorough understanding of Distributed Systems including Scalability, Performance, Reliability, Security and Consistency characteristics

• Experience in building multi-tenant SaaS architectures and have deep appreciation for Platform and API-first mindset

• Expertise with modern technology stacks, API design, microservices, stream processing and designing for resilience and operational excellence

• Experience in monitoring and improving Reliability of a complex system at scale

• Exposure to managing Security and Compliance challenges in Cloud products and/or platforms

• Strong communicator. You enjoy synthesizing, simplifying, and articulating complex problems to others

• A team-player, with a result-focused passion to deliver an overall solution

• You embrace perpetual learning and are always ready for a new challenge

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