Overview:
The Principal Engineer, Analytics provides technical leadership for the engineering teams across the Analytics stage, working closely as a key member of the leadership team in collaboration with counterparts across the organization.
What you’ll do:
- Contribute to the overall direction of the Analytics stage and company-wide reporting and analytics initiatives.
- Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts and individual contributors.
- Plan improvements and features with a 12-month view and ensure that OKR-level goals are aligned across the stage.
- Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity.
- Interface with Engineering Managers and Senior Management.
- Propose initial technical implementations which support architectural changes.
- Interact with customers and other external stakeholders.
- Identify slow and inefficient code across multiple products.
Examples of initiatives you will work on:
- Key member of the team providing architectural leadership for initiatives within and outside the Analytics stage.
- Performance optimization.
- Improved instrumentation and metrics to inform feature development and support results for customers.
- Cross-stage alignment of technical direction within Analytics and across all the stages in the DevSecOps lifecycle.
What you’ll bring:
- Significant professional experience as a Principal Engineer, or relevant hands-on management and leadership experience.
- Significant professional experience with Go.
- Extensive experience building high-throughput, realtime distributed systems that perform reliably and at scale.
- Expert knowledge and experience in CI/CD using DevSecOps best practices.
- Experience developing solutions that can scale.
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate complex problems and solutions.
- Experience with performance and optimization problems.
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
- Experience owning a project from concept to production.
