Principal Cloud Hosted Services Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Principal Cloud Hosted Services Engineer who is at home developing complex multi-tier software applications and collaborating with cross-functional international teams to drive the technical strategy for our cloud infrastructure. As a Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud-based hosted services that are critical to our organization's success.

• Work with product owners to develop the product vision and roadmap
• Provide all of the product teams with technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance
• Document and diagram proposed solutions, and ensure documentation and diagrams remain current for all deployments.
• Advise end-to-end development of new features from concept through testing and deployment
• Mentor others in the writing of clean, well-documented, testable OOP code following KISS/SOLID principles
• Mentor others in how to develop cloud-native applications
• Advocate for non-functional requirements like performance, versioning, deployability, configurability, observability, scalability, security, etc.
• Meticulous attention to detail and high quality of work
• Build up and maintain our Dev Ops/CI environment through research, implementation and monitoring
• Create alerts and data mine logs and metrics for issues in cloud hosted services and the client applications that call to the services
• Ability to design and architect service level componentry
• Spike testing and rapid prototyping

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent knowledge in designing and developing complex, multi-tier, cloud-native software applications
• Advanced knowledge in architecting cloud solutions in GCP or AWS (we are migrating from AWS to GCP)
• Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes (EKS and/or GKE)
• Advanced experience with automating the provisioning of cloud resources using infrastructure as code (we use Terraform)
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Team City, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, or Circle
  
  CI (we use Team City and Git Hub Actions)
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Data Dog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, and Kibana (we use Data Dog and are migrating to Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana for monitoring and ELK stack for logs)
• Experience with a high-level language like C#, Java, JavaScript, or Golang (we use C#, C++, JavaScript, and Python)
• Creating and consuming RESTful web services and experience with 3rd party APIs
• Well-versed in optimizing database queries to No
  
  SQL databases (we use Mongo
  
  DB)
• Good understanding of design patterns
• Experience leveraging LLMs and operating Agents to assist with tasks and development

• Experience with big data, stream processing and machine learning algorithms
• Experience with geospatial applications & databases
• Working in an agile environment (we use a mix of Scrum and Kanban)
• Experience or knowledge of dependency injection
• Experience with real-time, multiplayer services
• Google Cloud Certification
• Experience with Kubernetes-adjacent tooling like Helm, Kustomize, and ArgoCD
• Understanding of effective unit testing and experience with Visual Studio Tests or NUnit
• Experience creating mock objects using Moq, NSubstitute or other mocking framework

$160,000 - $200,000 a year