Senior Principal Engineer

Position Summary

The Senior Principal Engineer is responsible for devising, planning, and implementing engineering strategies for Jet Blue, as well as implementing systems architecture that impact the critical technical directions of the organization. This role is a pivotal and highly strategic position centered on our highest-risk and operational impactful undertakings.

As Jet Blue develops its future state architectures and platforms, this role will be a primary strategic contributor for our Technology Vision & Strategy and will evaluate opportunities for revenue impacts through systems availability, performance, and operational support.

• Provide meaningful impacts to revenue and customer experience through the technical development of the staff and our systems architecture.
• Provides immense thought leadership and collaboration into the broader Jet Blue organization through empirical analysis.
• Define problems autonomously and proactively own complex features and distributed designs.
• Presents complex distributed designs across the organization including interactivity with components/services across teams to ensure they align to our systems architecture strategies.
• Develops designs and technical roadmaps that influence long-term strategic implementations across teams.
• Exudes extreme curiosity to explore customer experiences, obsessively finding opportunities for our customers to experience technology 'that just works all the time'.
• Drives a technology normalization strategy, addressing technology drift across our broader technology organization.
• Develop, design, implement, and operationally support large scale digital experiences as well as cloud native experiences using mainstream cloud providers.
• Design, write, and implement platform automation that can be utilized both as continuous integration (CI)/continuous deployment (CD) input and production synthetic transactions.
• Provide input and guidance on development and architecture decisions, acting as a key mentor with other engineers.
• Taking a customer first approach, evaluate new technologies and determine viability per solution.
• Analyze requirements and solution architecture and provide task specific estimates.
• Mentor engineers with regards to coding practices and design decisions.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure high quality and consistent coding practices.
• Participate in scrum team ceremonies in agile methodology, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.
• Collaborate closely with other product development and IT teams globally including Product Management, Architecture, Dev Ops, Quality Assurance (QA), and Infrastructure teams.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline; OR demonstrated capability to perform job responsibilities with a combination of a High School Diploma/GED and at least four (4) years of previous relevant work experience.
• Six (6) years of software engineering experience, building highly scaled and distributed systems architecture.
• Six (6) years of professional full stack development using mainstream development stacks such as NodeJS, Java, and Angular.
• Demonstrated technical skills through a live work sample during the hiring process.
• Deep subject matter expertise and knowledge of modern software architecture, microservices, micro-frontends, serverless applications and frameworks.
• Subject matter expertise with CI/CD pipeline and tools like Jenkins and Sonarqube. Has experience with assisting in the refinement of development practices using approaches such as Git Ops.
• Subject matter expert with developing software applications in at least one of the major Cloud platforms - Azure, GCP or AWS.
• Available for light to moderate overnight travel (less than 10%).
• In possession of valid travel documents and the ability to travel in and out of the United States.
• Able to work flexible hours and be available for emergency response on short notice.
• Must pass a pre-employment drug test.
• Must be legally eligible to work in the country in which the position is located.
• Awareness of security best practices in the Cloud Sec…