Software Engineering PMTS

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About the Position:

The Database engineering team is based in the Bay Area, Toronto and India. The team has the DNA of building highly scalable, mission critical enterprise products. As part of building our team, we are looking for engineers and leaders who are passionate about working on the RDBMS technology of massive scale and one that thrives with continuous innovation.

We are looking for a principal engineers to deliver features in the database archival technology. Candidate must have strong backup/restore internals background to work with a team that is responsible for architecting, developing and testing of the service. In this role, you will work in a scrum team responsible on all aspects of Agile processes and work closely with team of top talent and highly motivated software engineers with varying levels of expertise in relational database development. You will need to deliver highly complex features with the scalability and performance needed to match the staggering growth of our service.
You will need familiarity with archival internals, distributed systems or networking, interest in system programming, exceptional software engineering skills, and relish the opportunity to work on very complex, highly concurrent, highly scalable and resilient systems. You must have a proven track record of success where you demonstrated end to end ownership of architecture, design, implementation, monitoring, testing, and product support on large mission critical systems at petabyte scale.

As a principal software engineer of the database archival team, you will be responsible for:

Own design and development to deliver technical outcomes on all project related issues
Help with backlog planning, cross-team dependency planning and drive the team to execute on the plan.
The team will be responsible to meet all Performance, Availability, Quality and Security standards.
Interacting with broader archival team to help integrate the projects/features and collaborate tightly on code, design and test strategy reviews
Demonstrate engineering expertise by working closely with architects, and engineering managers to execute on the strategy for your feature areas, help plan the backlogs, and enable your Scrum team to execute that roadmap flawlessly
Collaborate with architect and product owner to own and drive the design and development of the features for high quality
Owning and resolving Customer issues with utmost urgency and adhering to customer trust
Drive cross team collaborative work environment with other Scrum teams and
engineering managers that fosters autonomy, innovation, learning, respect and
transparency while holding a high bar for delivery
Requirements:
BS/MS in Computer Science
Excellent communication skills and problem-solving skills
Experience with highly-scalable and highly-available distributed systems.
Experienced with developing backup/restore features for cloud database
Prior experience with using Kubernetes to build and operate clusters is a must
Prior experience with CI/CD, Infra-as-a-Code is a must
Experience in Java development.
Experience with backup and restore product development, demonstrated by working on critical areas of a successful commercial archival solutions
15+ years in software development which includes experience in varying aspects of development cycle, including design, coding.

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