Lead Principal Data Systems Software Engineer

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About the role

Serves as domain expert shaping product architecture and velocity. Defines scalable patterns for microservices, data modeling (including spatial/graph), and performance engineering across multiple product areas. Applies in-database analytics and machine learning to differentiate value and reduce latency. Sets service-level objectives and enforces them via testing and observability. Leads post-release analyses to connect features to revenue, adoption, and retention outcomes; guides technical strategy with product leadership.

Responsibilities

• Set product-wide patterns for microservices and data modeling (including spatial/graph) to accelerate feature delivery.
• Integrate in-database analytics and machine learning to enable personalization, recommendations, or fraud detection.
• Define service-level objectives and enforce them via performance gates, query linting, and production telemetry.
• Architect existing and modern/emerging new services.
• Lead project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements.
• Write and define foundational code for new projects or prototypes.
• Adhere to and improve execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; coach engineers across teams or units to drive improvements.
• Act as a subject matter expert within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develop documents to clarify software design and code.
• Lead process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and/or products/services to drive improvements.
• Utilize modern/emerging technologies to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex software issues.
• Lead strategic initiatives to optimize software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.
• Encourage innovation, research, and relevant industry practices to optimize performance across products and domains.
• Resolve and troubleshoot highly complex and systematic issues requiring innovation related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
• Implement innovative API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Lead task and project initiatives for the design and development of software, systems, and services.
• Define project or design scope; review, influence, and approve scope and design recommendations.
• Provide technical guidance, domain expertise, and coaching in software architecture decisions and best practices that drive key organizational decisions, including industry standards and competitive considerations.
• Utilize innovative methods to conduct highly complex periodic reviews and ensure adherence to architectural standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across lines of business and externally to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities.
• Implement innovative performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
• Conduct regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements and translate into decisions and plans that can have a major impact on the organization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigation to align and explain rationale behind solutions.
• Provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues to mitigate recurrence.
• Act as an advisor to advocate for customers' interests and suggest product enhancements and solutions based on feedback.
• Network across lines of business to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
• Guide implementation of strategic solutions for customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.
• Investigate and troubleshoot the most complex and broadly reaching product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).
• Collaborate with the security team and leadership teams to establish, follow, and improve upon development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.
• Participate in peer review processes and provide technical leadership with initiatives to ensure quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.
• Demonstrate, contribute to, and share deep expertise of industry best practices and their application to software development processes.
• Implement highly complex secure software development practices/solutions requiring modern/emerging innovation to prevent security vulnerabilities, leveraging automated solutions to augment the manual review process.
• Lead project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).
• Act as subject matter expert to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
• Manage and provide direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements.
• Anticipate and plan for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.
• Influence cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives.
• Foster partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success.
• Champion transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.
• Lead specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues.
• Guide others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drive the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.
• Leverage deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization.
• Contribute to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions).
• Maintain and evolve expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices.
• Champion continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams.
• Apply new knowledge to drive advancement and mentor others to do the same.
• Develop innovative solutions and drive the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.
• Evaluate effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals.
• Design and develop metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.
• Serve as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy.
• Impart leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.

Pay

US: Hiring range in USD from $122,800 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance