Principal AWS Software Engineer - Location Negotiable

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Job Description for Principal Software Engineer

You will be solving deep technical problems and building creative solutions in a dynamic environment working with knowledgeable and passionate SDE's. You are experienced building for the cloud – designing for five 9s, globally distributed all-active deployments, horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and more. You are motivated by learning, evaluating, and deploying new technologies. Our services are deployed in an Amazon Web Services environment, and so you will working hands on with many AWS components. You thrive in true-agile, highly paced, production facing environment. You have a low tolerance for mediocrity. You love to write code and build extraordinary things.

We are looking for coders, people who love to code, just like we do! You should be energetic, confident, and ready to contribute in many areas of the software development lifecycle. You may be involved in all the aspects from research, design, specs, coding, and bug fixing. Our team focus is on writing dependable code and getting high quality products and services to market as quick as possible.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

·  Minimum 3 years experience building AWS cloud native services using EC2, S3, ECS, SQS, API Gateway, Lambda, etc.
·  Minimum 2 years of experience with `infrastructure as code` IAC and using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef.
·  Minimum 2 years experience with CICD pipelines (i.e. Jenkins) with building and/or configuring pipelines for build and deployment of software.
·  Minimum 5 years coding knowledge and experience with C# .NET and/or java and object oriented methodologies
·  Minimum 3 years coding knowledge and experience with SQL
·  Minimum of 2 years experience of writing scripts in Python, PowerShell or Bash

Preferred Qualifications:

·  BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical knowledge
·  Experience in building highly-available (HA) production-grade solutions in AWS.
·  Successfully developed for large scale distributed systems and reliable, fault tolerant software.
·  Understanding of and hands-on experience with the principles of designing and building production quality REST APIs.
·  Practical experience with Linux/Unix system administration, monitoring tools and troubleshooting.
·  CICV, CICD, Automation (Terraform a plus)
·  Experience designing/implementing high performance Web services using SOA/REST/Microservices
·  Experience in the design/build/maintenance/refactor of large scale low latency high performance systems
·  Ability to quickly learn and develop expertise in existing highly complex applications and architectures
·  Extensive knowledge with high volume distributed application development in cloud environment
·  Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, particularly in both production and non-production environments.
·  Experience using Agile methodologies, TDD, Code review, clear and concise documentation

Professional Skill Requirements:

·  Strong analytic, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
·  Uncommon ability and motivation to tackle problems and learn fast
·  Ability to perform at a high level within a technical team
·  Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
·  Excellent communication and relationship skills
·  Distributed teamwork

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