Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer
About the role
Basic Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of C (System programming) and Multi-threaded programming.
- Experience in developing commercial software for a distributed/cloud environment or large-scale enterprise products.
- Solid understanding of software systems analysis and design, and software development life cycle.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
- Hands-on experience with Linux & Networking skills.
- Prior knowledge of storage concepts and file systems is a added advantage.
- Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
- Strong ability to lead projects through effective communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
- Past experience with mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional and geographically distributed stakeholders towards achieving success of the task at hand.
Education: BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields with experience of 10+ years in the functional area.
As a member of the software engineering division, you will work in a highly-collaborative team in building new features for File Storage Service; operating and growing the current service offering. You should be able to architect systems interactions, while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower level system interactions.
You will apply knowledge of software architecture to perform tasks associated with the designing, developing, and debugging of software in distributed system with an emphasis on scalability, performance, resiliency, and operability. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture.
Build fault-tolerant paths and apply recovery‑oriented principles. Proactively detect and mitigate issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; author runbooks and participate in incident response, RCAs, mitigation etc.