Principal Engineer II - Software

Company Summary

Echo Star is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business spans satellite television service, streaming and on‑demand programming, smart home installation services, 5G wireless consumer and commercial services, internet and other enterprise products. Today, our brands include Echo Star, Hughes, DISH TV, Sling TV, Boost Infinite, Boost Mobile, DISH.

Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play a vital role in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

Principal Engineer II – Software (Hughes Network Systems LLC), Germantown, MD.

Participate in requirements gathering and system design. Interface with Business Stakeholders to collaborate on feature design. Support queries from Business about the platform. Perform system and unit design according to technical requirements. Troubleshoot and support applications in test and production environments. Research new application frameworks and suggest improvements to the application portfolio. Respond to change management requests including new features and bugs.

Define and implement improvements for service assurance, performance, security, and robustness.

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or a closely related technical field plus 7 years of software application development experience in the job offered or similar roles.
• 7 years of experience in each of the following:
  Java, Node.js, Springboot, J2EE, Oracle PL/SQL, BPM.
• Dev Sec Ops  and CICD.
• Virtualization and containerization technologies.
• Test automation with JMeter and JUnit or similar tools.
• Databases both relational and non‑SQL.
• API Gateway (APIGEE, NGINX, Kong), Swagger.
• Public Cloud (GCP).
• Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Apache Kafka, JBoss FUSE, JBoss EAP.
• OSS/BSS Domain.
• Microservices Architecture.

Salary Range: $ per year – $ per year. Rate of Pay: $ per year.

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Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre‑employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.