Sr Principal Software Engineer (Wildfire - Backend)

• Lead in the design, deployment and scaling of our architecture
• Participate in the redesign of the architecture to introduce appropriate microservices to process high rates of sample submissions
• Thought leadership in driving the technical roadmap
• Hands-on participation in developing next generation architecture optimized for the scalable solutions
• Conceptualize, Architect and develop highly efficient multi-cloud micro services and data pipelines to support 10x traffic increases
• Keep the product updated with best-of-the-times technology in a fast-evolving environment
• Work with DevOps and Technical Support teams to investigate and resolve critical customer defects
• Recruit and Mentor new team members

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in building large enterprise applications
• 4+ years experience in technical leadership roles
• Hands on experience writing production high quality scalable code in Python/Golang
• extensive experiences with writing asynchronous code in multi-threaded and multi-processes env
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Great design and architecture skills, turning an idea into a production grade design and own end to end development and releases
• Strong knowledge of databases, storage, and distributed persistence technologies
• Hands on experience with databases like SQL/NoSQL and other modern databases is a plus
• Experience with performance profiling, tuning and improvement
• Good to have a cloud-native service development stack on GCP/AWS or other clouds
• Experience with building REST/grpc API services and queuing system such as pubsub, RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Exposure to using configuration management tools such as argocd, Ansible and/or Terraform
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering / Computer science or equivalent

A plus would be to have 2-3 years of experience in this role