Principal Software Engineer, Core Technology Group (Big Data and Cloud)

Job Number: 22298

Position Title: Principal Software Engineer

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Principal Software Engineer, Core Technology Group (Big Data and Cloud)

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. Our team specifically has the following responsibilities:

• Converting user created Big Data tasks into Hadoop Jobs
• Optimizing the jobs for best performance
• Reducing latency and processing time of query operations to return instantaneous results
• Delivering large data sets to client applications with extremely high throughput
• Cross compiler to translate representation of a data flow plan from one engine to another such as Relational DB, Hadoop or Spark
• Executing and monitoring jobs on-prem, on the cloud, or in hybrid mode on both.

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, Spark 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 query optimizers, large scale data management or database products. You relish the opportunity to work on building 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 product
• Incubating and designing the next generation platform for complex heterogeneous systems and applications involving cutting edge technologies
• Working closely with architects and 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
• Taking architectural ownership of functional areas in the product

Representative accountabilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Leading and driving the delivery and architecture for significantly large functional areas in the product
• Taking ownership for features in the platform that cut across multiple product groups
• 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

• 10 or more years of relevant professional experience, a portion of which was within an enterprise software company
• Demonstrated ability to write quality code in Java
• Knowledge of Hadoop technologies, especially Spark, Hive, and HDFS
• Knowledge of cloud ecosystems such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure is a plus
• Proven ability to work well with others in a fast paced, iterative product definition and development environment
• Ability to communicate and express thoughts and ideas in a big group
• 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
• Strong analytical problem solving and decision making skills
• BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline; advanced degree

 

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.

Travel Requirement: Limited

Location_formattedLocationLong: Redwood City, California US