Job Description:
As a Principal Engineer, you will lead the full-stack development of one of Sorocos major products by working cross-functionally with the product and design organizations. Within the product engineering team, this role reports directly to the Director of Engineering to drive complex technical solutions to meet the requirements of the product. This includes leading a team of engineers, guiding them towards the best technical design and implementations, owning the NFR engineering for the product, consulting with client engagement teams on client escalations and interacting with client teams for technology value articulation. Additionally, as an individual contributor, you will solve some of the more challenging aspects of the technology and ensure the timely delivery of product requirements.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
As primary owner of the architecture and design of your suite of products you will be responsible for - scaling, performance, availability & quality of the products; driving technology & best practices in engineering; driving code reviews, design reviews architecture discussions; driving the adoption of these best practices
Actively code and experiment with a new set of technologies and tools for futuristic systems
Translate high-level business requirements into technical functional requirements
Technical effort management, resource scheduling, task decomposition, and risk management in an agile environment
Provide mentorship in framework design to engineers and collaborate effectively with other product development teams across multiple geographies
Create systems that orchestrate and execute complex workflows using data pipelines
Evaluate and fine-tune systems for speed, robustness, and cost-efficiency
Troubleshoot business and production issues
Own multiple systems and work with engineers, product managers and engineering leaders to identify opportunities
for business impact
Participate in setting a vision and objectives for the team in alignment with business and market needs
The ideal Principal full-stack engineer will be a senior engineer who is passionate about leading and guiding passionate software development teams working on hard problems in computer science in areas such as distributed systems, machine learning, NLP, programming languages, computer security, networking, cloud computing, automation, analytics andbrowig data.