Principal Engineer, API Protection

About the role

Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.

What's in it for you

• As a member of the API Protection Team you will work cross-functionally to build state-of-the-art cloud platforms to support our growing product portfolio.

What you will be doing

• Collaborate with high profile talents, coach, mentor and encourage growth and career progress of team members.
• Reviewing architectures and designs across the organization to help guide other engineers to build scalable cloud services.
• Providing technical leadership and strategic direction for large-scale distributed cloud-native solutions.
• Being a catalyst for improving engineering processes and ownership.

Qualifications/Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience including 8+ years experience with distributed systems.
• Excellent Unix/Linux experience and programming experience with go, C/C++, java and scripting: python, ruby, shell.
• Understanding of IPC mechanisms and previous experience working with: TCP/IP, Kafka, zmq, grpc, zookeeper.
• Strong background in cloud environments: containers, docker, kubernetes, etcd, zookeeper, service meshes, vault, istio and envoy, API gateways, load balancers.
• Experience with databases, general understanding of ACID, consistency, sql/nosql, key-value stores, time series and columnar databases.
• Experience in CI/CD, using tools like Drone, Github, Makefiles, etc.
• Experience with in-memory databases like Redis.

Additional Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Communicate in an open, transparent and consistent manner with team and co-workers.
• Determined and ever ready to roll up sleeves to respond to the needs of customers proactively and promptly.
• Achievement orientated and willing to take responsibility for own actions.
• Believe in innovation and out-of-the box thinking to foster originality of ideas.

Education

• MS in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree.

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