Principal Software Engineer

Overview

The care and feeding of massive data sets created from live, constantly changing production systems is a tough problem in and of itself. Add the need to deliver the data set with complete integrity, in a timely manner, without impacting the production system’s performance or availability and you’ve got a real challenge. Layer on the need to build predictive models to accurately estimate how long this operation will take with a high level of confidence across vastly divergent data shapes and sizes.

Oh yeah, did we mention that we do this successfully thousands of times per week, every week? We don’t do it alone, the Sandbox team works closely with many others, from our customers to those in the operational data centers and many in between. An integral part of the copy operation is capturing numerous data points from the compute and storage tiers to be able to better analyze the impact on the multi-tenant customer Sandbox environments.

Do you like to solve tough problems, build data analysis tools using the new machine or deep learning algorithms, crunch billions of data points, create resilient, asynchronous, and long running solutions? Can your code run for days, respond gracefully to automated or manual intervention, survive rolling soft restarts and pick up where it left off? Ours needs to, and we need your help to deliver it.

We work in collaboration with multiple teams embracing the shared goal of delivering the best software possible, anchored in a culture of quality, delivery, and innovation. Our world-class development teams try and blur the lines between development and testing by welcoming the responsibility of writing testable, high performance, maintainable code. We deliver working software bi-weekly via iterative and incremental Agile development practices. Individuals on our self organizing teams are motivated, trusted and continuously focused on technical excellence. This position will require extensive cross team collaboration as the portfolio of solutions you deliver will impact a myriad of internal teams and most importantly, provide a valuable service for our customers.

Desired Skills & Experience 

As the senior member of the Sandbox team you’ll use your passion for software development to consistently make an impact. Your colleagues look to you for guidance, and you love to share what you know to make the entire team better. You don’t accept the status quo. You challenge assumptions, and strive to improve everything you’re involved with. You exhibit the courage to respectfully disagree, and are prepared to back your position with evidence.

We use a lot of familiar tools and technologies such as Java and SQL to build multi-tiered, multi-tenant, scalable applications. We believe that if you’re a full stack software engineer and you’re smart then you’re capable of learning new languages and technologies. Bonus points for having worked with Machine Learning, Big Data, PredictionIO, API design and of course anything “cloud”.

We’d love to see what you’ve built. If you’ve got them, send us links to your Github, Gitorious, SourceForge accounts or links to personal or hobby apps/sites/programs that you have built.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership
• Establish and lead long-term business impacting projects
• Work closely with Product Managers, other Architects, and Engineering Leaders across the company

Skills:

• Java
• PL/SQL
• Strong Oracle knowledge
• Leadership / Mentoring
• Cross Team Collaboration