Senior Principal SDE

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and operate distributed services supporting data center lifecycle workflows, including planning, design, build, and operations.
• This includes defining APIs, data models, scalability strategies, and failure-mode behavior.
• Own feature delivery from design through production rollout, including implementation, testing strategy, deployment planning, and operational readiness.
• Operate in a builder-operator model. You will build, deploy, and participate in on-call rotations.
• Drive service reliability improvements based on incidents, retrospectives, and operational data.
• Lead technical reviews, including architecture and functional design reviews.
• Write and maintain clear documentation, and ensure designs are secure by default and supportable for long-term operations.
• Improve engineering velocity and quality by strengthening code review practices, increasing automated test coverage, and enhancing continuous integration and continuous delivery, test automation, and deployment automation.
• Partner with Product Managers and leadership to translate requirements into roadmaps and execution plans. Communicate trade-offs, risks, and milestones clearly.
• Mentor engineers across levels. Set expectations for operational excellence, observability, and proactive service ownership, and raise engineering standards across multiple teams.
• Reduce operational toil by investing in automation, self-service capabilities, and observability such as metrics, logs, and tracing.
• Collaborate across dependent teams such as networking, security, identity, observability, storage, and release engineering to deliver integrated solutions for data center delivery and operations tooling.
• Contribute to longer-term technical direction for data center software platforms by identifying opportunities to modernize systems, standardize interfaces, and improve the end-to-end lifecycle experience for builders and operators.

Qualifications

• A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of full stack software development, including design, implementation, and operation of distributed services.
• Demonstrated experience owning production services end-to-end in a builder-operator model, including design, build, deploy, on-call, and continuous improvement.
• Strong product development experience in Java, Python, Go, and or JavaScript.
• Expertise designing REST APIs and building multi-tenant services with clear isolation, quota, and lifecycle management.
• Experience leading architecture and functional reviews, strong written documentation habits, and the ability to partner with Product Managers across the full launch lifecycle.
• Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage concepts, and distributed persistence technologies.
• Proven technical leadership, including delivering multiple initiatives in parallel, unblocking teams, and driving execution while maintaining high engineering quality.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate trade-offs, risks, and operational considerations to diverse stakeholders.