Principal Cloud Engineer

Job Number: 52946
Group: Magna Corporate
Division: Mobility USA
Job Type: Permanent/Regular
Location: BOSTON
Group Description
At Magna, we create technology that disrupts the industry and solves big problems for consumers, our customers, and the world around us. We're the only mobility technology company and supplier with complete expertise across the entire vehicle.
We are committed to quality and continuous improvement because our products impact millions of people every day. But we're more than what we make. We are a group of entrepreneurial-minded people whose collective expertise gives us a competitive advantage. World Class Manufacturing is a journey and it's our talented people who lead us on this journey.
Role Summary
Key Responsibilities
• Architect, build, and test IoT microservices to support APIs, MQTT topics, and business logic.• Architect, build, and test data structures to support telemetry, usage, and business data.• Provide expertise and guidance for Cloud solutions to product, firmware, and mobile teams.• Optimization of microservices to be cost effective and fast.• Provide support to software architecture, design, and implementation of software components related to our IoT connected products. Utilize efficient and compact software to balance tradeoffs spanning the cloud, device firmware, connected applications, and other backend systems.• Design and architect data storage by balancing performance, cost, and storage tradeoffs through various database technologies.• Collaborate with Embedded Software Engineers, Mobile Developers, DevOps, Quality Assurance.• Evaluate security best practices, trends, and typical models to identify and recommend appropriate solutions for connected products to meet stringent requirements.• Responsible for software architecture, design, and implementation of software components related to our IoT connected products.• Lead the adoption of best-in-class software engineering practices, frameworks, and tools.• Develop efficient and compact software to balance tradeoffs spanning the cloud, device firmware, connected apps, and other backend systems.• Actively contribute to and support challenging software implementation by creating the critical code foundation on top of which other members of the team can build.
Key Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.• Strong Software Engineering background with progressively increased responsibility, including architecting and developing components or features.• Practical experience in developing serverless or microservice solutions or N-tiered development.• Practical experience in developing on cloud systems (AWS preferred, optionally Azure and GCP).• Strong understanding of IoT solutions, having built or been part of a team that delivered an IoT solution.• Practical experience developing in various object-oriented programming and scripting languages (e.g., Node.JS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Golang, C#, Java).• Practical experience building data structures (e.g., relational, document, graph) and data sources (e.g., NoSQL, RDBMS, files) for various data types.• Practical experience designing and controlling APIs for consistency, simplicity, and extensibility.• Strong AWS microservice development e.g., Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Cognito, Amazon API Gateway, DynamoDB, AWS IoT Core, Kinesis, SNS, SQS.Our IoT outlook strives for consumer interaction with our products in new and unique ways. • As a member of the IoT Cloud Software team, you will architect, design, collaborate, and bring life to IoT solutions alongside skilled engineers on the Mobile, Firmware, and QA teams. Understanding and materializing the vision for next generation products, you will build robust, scalable cloud solutions as a foundation for our IoT services.
Additional Information
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Nearest Major Market: Boston