Principal Cloud Engineer

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Principal Cloud Engineer
Principal Software Engineer Is are members of our product teams, responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting common features. Working side-by-side with Product Owners, Software Test Engineers, and Business Stakeholders, they are actively involved in the complete software development life cycle in an agile environment including technical design, hands-on coding, unit testing, integration testing, performance tuning, maintenance, test automation, deploys and upgrades.
Are you the teammate we are looking for?
Who you are:
Engineering is the function that applies principles and techniques of engineering, mathematics, and computer/data science to the design, development, and testing of applications. The Product & Technology engineering family consists of software development, testing, database, devops, virtualization & network.
• Enthusiastic about developing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience
• An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process
• Interested in staying current by applying new technologies
• Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas
• Able to work independently on modules and complete tasks with high quality and contribute to high velocity, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team members
• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology
During the first six months, you will:
• Demonstrate a high level of depth in a particular domain
• Take on a leading role in discovery, design and implementation for major systems that involve cross-team dependencies
• Routinely and consistently push the team forward through design, complex problems, and ultimately delivering value to our clients
• Evangelize and gain team alignment with organization-wide technical strategies and best practices
• Work in systems that have significant consequences of failure, a high degree of ambiguity, or to a standard of quality well exceeding that of the current system
• Make technology choices for components needed as part of an existing larger architecture or framework.
• Solicit and provide feedback via decision-making frameworks from across the organization asking probing, insightful questions and raising awareness of any unintended impact or dependencies within their area of expertise.
• Own the overall health and engineering quality of a domain
• Be a technical subject matter expert for a domain
• Initiate and lead cross-team collaboration
Required Experience:

• Must be adaptable to change and have a willingness to learn
• Must have a strong sense of curiosity
• Must commit to their role and take responsibility for their tasks
• Must be able to work effectively in an agile and team environment
• Must be effective and creative in problem solving