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

Job Number: 22850

Position Title: Principal Software Engineer

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Principal Software Engineer, Core Technology Group (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 multi-processor environments as well on a cluster of nodes. 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 Hadoop
• Reducing latency and processing time of query operations to return instantaneous results
• Delivering large data sets to client applications with extremely high throughput
• Enable 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 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 metadata 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

• 7 or more years of relevant professional experience, a portion of which was within an enterprise software company
• Knowledge of database internals such as query parsing, processing, and optimizations, developing core scalable parts of a system or server-side multi-threaded development experience is essential
• Demonstrated ability to write quality code in Java. Scala is desired.
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies (including Hadoop & Spark) is desired.

• 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
  • Working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle, QA methodology, testing techniques and approaches

Experience building, shipping, and maintaining software Experience in the following: test automation, build infrastructure, release tooling, framework development Proficiency in designing, building, and debugging distributed systems Provide technical leadership and direction to cross-functional teams Lead a team of engineers in the design, implementation and delivery of substantial software features Design and architect complex non-functional features including Security / Scaling / Multi-Tenancy / High Availability / Disaster Recovery. Drive innovation and discussions to create and improve product, process and technology. Promote and apply engineering best-practices including code reviews, design/architecture reviews, unit testing code coverage review Utilize analytical skills in determining the root cause of problems, and demonstrate ability to multi-task and re-prioritize responsibilities based on changing requirements. Work in geographically dispersed team of highly motivated and energetic professionals. Work with product managers, quality assurance engineers and user experience designers to build the best products for our users

• • Mentor junior members in the team
  • A passion and curiosity for creating and building things
  • BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred

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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Location_formattedLocationLong: Redwood City, California US