Principal Engineer

Role Overview

Lead the backend engineering team to develop innovative, scalable, and efficient solutions to complex cloud-based problems, enhancing the company's backend infrastructure and optimizing cloud costs.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering projects from concept to deployment, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Develop and implement strategies for cloud cost optimization across AWS, GCP, and other platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to foster innovation and integrate machine learning models into our backend systems.
• Drive the adoption of DevOps and SRE best practices, enhancing automation processes with CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and maintain scalable architectures using Kubernetes, Docker, and other containerization tools.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.
• Monitor system performance using Thanos, Prometheus, Grafana, and other observability tools.
• Proactively address potential system failures using tools like PagerDuty and NewRelic.
• Develop backend systems in Python and Golang, supporting frontend integrations with ReactJS and NodeJS.
• Implement data storage solutions using MongoDB, SQL, and Postgres.
• Advocate for continuous improvement methodologies using Agile tools like Jira and ensuring code quality through SonarQube.
• Stay updated on the latest technologies in cloud computing, AI/ML, and recommend their application within the company's systems.

Qualifications