Job Title: Sr. Principal Engineer

Location: San Diego or remote within California or anywhere in PST hours

Duration: Full-time 

Areas of work 

Principals are involved in Architecture Direction and Alignment 

1.        Tracking and directing how the overall system architecture evolves. 

2.        Developing and identifying useful architecture patterns within our systems based on industry know-how and our own operational and development experience. 

3.        Develop and manage an architecture decisions guidelines framework that will be useful to make consistent, faster and reliable architecture and design decisions. 

4.        Documenting or making this information available to all engineers - new or old 

5.        Create mechanisms to audit and ensure architectural compliance across engineering teams

Internal Developer Community and Tech growth for teams -  Create and nurture tech communities so that developers can gain more knowledge about the industry practices learn to express their knowledge, opinions and views

Quality - Monitor and improve the quality of our systems by helping with 

1.        Bug reduction 

2.        MTTR reduction 

3.        Ensuring better engineering practices around testing, tooling, monitoring and resilience. 

Cost - Infra and application costs - Ensuring systems are run and maintained with frugality in mind without compromising on business and operational expectations. 

Partners at Work

Principals partner with team leads, product managers, infosec engineers and devops engineers, ensuring alignment in vision and execution, splitting time between different domains as they see fit. 

Minimum Qualifications

·      At least 10 plus years of software development experience 

·      Experience with technically leading projects and architecting high traffic consumer-facing applications. 

·      A background in CS or relevant technical experience. 

·      Familiarity with languages like Go, Java, Ruby and Python. 

·      Familiarity with the AWS Stack.