Principal Backend Software Engineer

Principal Backend Software Engineer
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote
Description
Iterative Scopes is seeking a Principal Backend Software Engineer.
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Key Responsibilities
The core responsibilities of this role include developing and maintaining high-performance, scalable distributed services for our data pipeline. This is a dynamic role that will require creative thinking, communication and team organization skills, and strong, general software engineering fundamentals. It will require end-to-end, system-wide breadth of knowledge with the potentially on-demand need for depth of any system component from relational databases and Linux boot configurations to high-volume data ingestion.
Requirements & Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ Years experience with database systems: PostgreSQL/Redshift, Snowflake/BigQuery
• 3+ Years experience with Python, Shell Scripting, or PowerShell
• 2+ Years Experience AWS, and other cloud engineering concepts: API Gateway/Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, VPC, Docker, Athena, IAM profiles, EventBridge
• Experience with build automation technologies: Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code: terraform/puppet/CloudFormation/CDK/SAM/serverless
• Strong software engineering skills (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
• Experience with event-driven service architecture
• Strong written/verbal technical communication and interpersonal skills
• Basic understanding of ML fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Solutions Architect Certification
• Deep understanding of modern microservices architectures
• Experience with observability: Splunk/Grafana/CloudWatch Metrics/Prometheus
• Experience with Data Observability/Data Quality
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with ETL: Airflow, Luigi, Pentaho
• Experience with HIPAA/compliance-focused workloads

Benefits

• Vision/Dental/ Medical Insurance
• Life/Disability Insurance
• Maternity/Paternity leave
• Stock Options
• Flexible Work Hours
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Fun Workspace! (Standing Desks/ Balance Boards/Ping pong Table/ Pick your own workstation set-ups!)
• Free Snacks and Drinks (Jura Espresso Maker + Snacks upon requests!)
• Free lunch on Fridays

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