Principal Software Development Engineer

Job Number: 21865

Position Title: Principal Software Engineer

External Description:

Principal Software Engineer, Core Technology Group (CTG) Data Engine

 

Our Company

Informatica is the only Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that accelerates data-driven digital transformation. Informatica enables companies to unleash the power of data to become more agile, realize new growth opportunities, lead to new inventions resulting in intelligent market disruptions. With over 7,000 customers worldwide, Informatica is the trusted leader in Enterprise Cloud Data Management. 

 

Our Team

The Core Technology Group (CTG) is the innovation hub within Informatica that is responsible for delivering an extensible, reliable and scalable platform that provides the solid foundation for all other Informatica products. Specifically our team focusses on building a high performance and scalable Data Engine that can scale on Hadoop, Spark, Cloud and multi-processor environments. The engine is capable of handling batch, request/response and real-time workloads to deliver data for applications. Here are some of the areas you will be innovating as part of our team:

• Cross compiler to translate representation of a data flow plan from one engine to another such as Hive, Hadoop, and Spark
• Optimizing query plans based on heuristics and rules
• Delivering large data sets to client applications with extremely high throughput
• Enabling the Data Engine to be available across on-premise, cloud, Hadoop and embedded applications

 

Your Opportunity

The Data Engine has been a key constituent of Informatica’s platform and serves multiple products such as Data Services, Data Quality and Profiling. Informatica products rely on the Data Engine to fulfill the vision of a Virtual Data Machine which is capable of executing data integration jobs either natively or across execution environments such as relational databases, Hadoop or cloud. You will be a key contributor to Informatica’s next generation platform and how it handles the volume, velocity and variety of structured and unstructured data. It could be enterprise and partner data from hosted Cloud services and on-premise deployments or arbitrary data from social web sites and media.

 

Our Ideal Candidate

You are an experienced software engineer who has worked on developing large scale data management or database products. You relish the opportunity to work on building functionality and optimizations that improve data processing performance across different use cases that include batch, request/response and real-time systems.

 

Your Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be based in Redwood City, CA and will be responsible for:

• Facilitating the collaboration and engagement between senior members of the team to ensure sound design and implementation of big functional areas for the Data Engine
• Working closely with architects, development and QA engineers to discuss and evangelize features
• Collaborating with geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams in an Agile environment
• Participating in internal/cross team meetings, scoping, decision making and technical documentation
• Mentoring junior engineers on technical, architectural, design and related issues
• Proactively identifying architectural weaknesses and recommending appropriate solutions

 Representative accountabilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Designing, implementing, documenting, analyzing and operationalizing platform features clearly to ensure that others may readily utilize them
• Interacting with QA and documentation teams to clearly communicate the features and behaviors of the system
• Reviewing functional and test specifications and conducting training sessions for global services and support teams
• Assisting customers and field engineers with troubleshooting issues and problems

Your Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant professional experience, a portion of which was within a enterprise software company
• Knowledge of database internals such as query optimizations, developing core scalable parts of system or server-side multi-threaded development experience is essential
• Strong programming skills in Java and/or C++ (Scala is desired as well)
• Demonstrated understanding of object oriented design and programming
• Knowledge of Hadoop, Hive, and Spark is highly desired
• Knowledge of Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, etc) is highly desired
• Knowledge of SQL/ Web Services technologies is desired
• Proven ability to work well with others in a fast paced, iterative product definition and development environment
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills within an organization
• Able to work independently with little direct supervision and take initiative; willing to mentor and develop others
• BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred

 

Informatica offers a competitive compensation package that includes base salary, medical, retirement and employee stock purchase (ESP) programs, flexible time off and more. Our generous benefits vary depending on your geographic work location. It’s an exciting time to work at Informatica. You can learn more about our company, our products and our services at www.informatica.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

City: Redwood City

State: California

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

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