Description

We’re currently looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience in Java, C++, Scala, GoLang, Kubernetes, Spark, Spring micro-services, Docker, Linux, gcc, MySQL, DynamoDB, ELK across AWS, Azure, & GCP to join our team in Redwood City. 

Job Summary

The team 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 focuses on building a high-performance and scalable Data Engine that can scale on multi-processor environments as well as 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-premises, cloud, Hadoop and embedded applications. 

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-premises deployments or arbitrary data from social web sites and media. 

• As our Principal Software Engineer, you 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. 

In the role of Principal Software Engineer, you must be able to work and adapt in a fluid, fast-paced environment. Working as the Principal Software Engineer you must have strong technical, communication, collaboration, and leadership skills 

Day-to-day Duties? Here's What You'll Be Doing

• Facilitating the collaboration and engagement between senior members of the team to ensure the 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 developers 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.

Key Essentials

• 8 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 and/or C++
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies (including Hadoop) is desired
• Knowledge of NoSQL database management systems such as Cassandra and MongoDB 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 preferred. 

What We’d Like to See

• 4+ years experience designing large-scale data warehouse/integration applications.