Principal Software Engineer - Data Systems

Principal Data Systems Software Engineer

Required Skills

• A minimum of six years working on mission critical large scale systems
• Experience with complex distributed systems
• Deep experience in troubleshooting networking and operating systems issues, root cause analysis, with a deep ability to identify new metrics for monitoring
• Deep experience with cloud scale infrastructure.  More specifically, knowledge of one or more of the following 
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • ELK
• Strong knowledge of scripting with knowledge of one or more of the following
  • Shell programming
  • Scripting in Ruby
  • Python programming
• Working knowledge of Apache Tomcat, Nginx, or Netty 
• Strong problem analysis skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• BS in computer science or equivalent experience

Highly Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of shared nothing database systems (Cassandra, HBase, DynamoDB, CosmosDB)
• Knowledge of log structured storage systems
• Knowledge of performance tuning and analysis in large scale distributed systems
• Programming skills in one of the following languages
  • Java
  • C++, or C