Senior Principal Engineer – Cloud & Edge Computing

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Principal Engineer – Cloud & Edge Computing

Location: Englewood, CO or Foster City, CA

Type: CTH

Salary: $181k

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities and skills include the following areas:

• Provide thought leadership on disruptive edge technologies and market trends.
• Drive the development of Edge technology solutions as key architect and development lead.
• Develop production ready code and software products. Preferred technology of choice: GoLang (Backend) and ReactNative (Frontend).
• Work with partners to develop Edge Caching and relevant applications.
• Build and manage micro services based applications, with a solid demonstration of the challenges presented by the architecture including inter-service communication, service discovery, distributed log collection, monitoring and independent scaling of services, etc.
• Work in an Agile environment and exhibit the ability to work in a constantly evolving project, without losing sight of the requirements or the overall vision.

Qualifications:

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Must have the following:

• 4-year college degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, master’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in distributed systems architecture and development, and able to code as required.
• 6+ years of professional experience and solid understanding of design patterns and hands-on knowledge in applying these concepts to practical problems.
• Experience in working with distributed systems and building/maintaining highly available applications and services, preferably on a cloud platform such as AWS.
• Hands-on experience in building, designing and using web services, preferably REST APIs.

Nice to have:

• Domain expertise in streaming technologies, protocols, codecs and standards.