Principal Software Engineer - Remote, US & Canada

Job Requisition ID #

23WD68904

Position Overview

As a Principal Engineer on the Mission Control Platform team, your mission will be to lead our group to a technically excellent culture. Both in people and technology. You will be among the most senior engineers on the team.

Mission Control owns the hub of all data and features that are used within ACS. Because of that, we are leaning into an Inner Sourcing framework that allows teams to unblock themselves and decouple from our own roadmap. Your focus will be ensuring that the Admin products and services are a delight to develop on and lead a developer experience that entices developers outside of our teams to contribute to. We believe leaning into a culture of ownership and automation will help us get to the promised land, and we need you to help us get there.

Responsibilities

• You will research, conceive, design and develop backend components and tools to extend, improve, stabilize and scale your team's backend
• Collaborate with a variety of teams in ACS, both domestic and abroad
• Join the 24/7 on-call rotation to help field production issues
• Write unit / integration tests to achieve a better and more robust code
• Take an active role in code reviews & pull requests, get your own code reviewed by the team and become a better developer overall

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in a technical field, or significant equivalent experience
• 5+ years of backend and distributed systems engineering experience
• Strong experience with CI/CD including AWS (or similar) cloud engineering and configuration
• Have implemented and end of lifed large/complex systems end-to-end across multiple platforms or services
• Expertise with SQL/Postgres DB
• Strong communication skills with the ability to converse fluently with multiple types of audiences ranging from managers, customers, and software developers
• Ability to work well in a remote-friendly distributed team to deliver on team goals
• Flexibility under changing conditions and ability to multi-task between projects

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