Senior Principal Software Engineer

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Job Summary

We are looking for a seasoned “Senior Principal Engineer” to join the Strategic Service Management team in DIO organization. Strategic Service Management is chartered to provide end-to-end observability for infrastructure for our Data Centers.

We are looking for someone with a passion for developing modern software stacks and capabilities that can deliver unparalleled digital customer experiences, leveraging both open technologies and vendor solutions.

In this senior role, you will provide software engineering expertise and technical leadership. You will collaborate with executives, product leaders, and other engineering teams to deliver advanced enterprise software capabilities. You will establish the technical direction for system design, implementation, integration, modernization, and continuous improvements across the entire value stream.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technical leadership to evaluate and implement software capabilities for Strategic Service Management. These implementations should optimally balance tradeoffs to meet business, product, and architectural requirements, including considerations of scale, reliability, performance, extensibility, and maintainability

• Collaborate with the Office of the OCTO on software architecture blueprints and roadmaps

• Serve as a visible technical thought leader both internally and externally

• Work with Product Management and other key stakeholders to develop effective and efficient business solutions

• Responsible for delivering solutions that meet business objectives in alignment with architectural principles & guidelines

• Responsible for hands-on design and development of highly available, scalable, secure, data-intensive, concurrent, globally distributed applications

• Participate in the design & peer code review process

• Participate in continuous grooming in collaboration with the Product Owner

• Work in a Globally distributed development team environment

• Responsible for Investigating, analyzing, and evaluating new technologies

• Identify technical debt and drive continual improvement by partnering with stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master of Science in Computer Science or a related engineering field

• 10+ years of relevant technology innovation, architecture or engineering experience in software

• Strong understanding of modern software stacks, including cloud-native technologies and software ecosystems

• Experience developing software products/capabilities serving large-scale real-time streaming and web based applications

• Excellent writing and verbal communications skills for engagements with stakeholders, from engineering to executive levels

• Outstanding collaboration and interpersonal skills

Successful candidate will

• "Keep Customer at the Center" of everything they do

• “Foster Belonging” and “Create Clarity Always” for their team and all stakeholders

• “Adapt With Speed" to the evolving landscape of opportunities and risks and "Take Accountability" of the outcomes

• Exhibit a high curiosity growth mindset and will keep tabs on the latest trends & technologies to drive innovation

• Show pride in ownership and strive for excellence

The United States targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

• San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $198,000 to $298,000 per year

• California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $191,000 to $287,000 per year

• Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $177,000 to $265,000 per year

Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.
This position may be offered in other locations. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.
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