Principal Engineer - 103967
Technology and Engineering - USA Tampa, Florida
Principal Engineer: We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Digital Content Ratings Crediting team. Ideal candidate would be someone with a passion for Clean Code, Scalable architectures, Test Driven Development and DevOps. Someone who loves getting hands dirty with code and learns everyday.
WE ARE OPEN TO REMOTE LOCATIONS WHERE WE HAVE OFFICES i.e  MARYLAND, CHICAGO, NEW YORK AND FLORIDA
Responsibilities
• Build, maintain and extend  DCR Big Data Pipeline processing large datasets pertaining to Digital Content Ratings.
• Drive technical discussions and establish architectural vision for the processing pipelines using industry best practices.
• Work with Product Owners to implement strategic product initiatives in the processing platforms. Propose technology ideas to optimize performance, cost and service quality.
• Lead Agile scrum related rituals and participate in grooming sessions to effectively translate business requirements to Agile stories.
• Drive DevOps and SecOps practices for continuous incremental delivery and maintain business critical production environments.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with Architects, Managers and Leaders proposing improvements, providing timely status updates on critical projects.
• Conduct code and design reviews, provide effective feedback based on best practices, past experience.
• Drive automation effort in the areas of Cloud resource provisioning, Application testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Partner with other teams to share learnings and code to accelerate development and team growth.
Requirements
• Extensive programming experience and desire to write review code 70% of the time.
• 7-10 years experience of working with Scala, Java with appreciation for Object Oriented and functional programming paradigms. Familiarity with Python is a plus.
• Hands on experience with Spark, Spark SQL, Hive and Hadoop.
• Experience with building CICD pipelines in GitLab for applications running on AWS EMR & Kubernetes (EKS)
• Deep understanding of AWS services and hands on experience of using Terraform or Cloudformation templates.
• Proven track record of developing large scale enterprise BigData systems using Agile, TDD & DevOps methodologies.
• Experience using monitoring and alert orchestration tools such as DataDog, NewRelic, OpsGenie/PagerDuty (or equivalent) SaaS tools.
• Ability to debug, performance tune large scale BigData applications.
• Proven track record on delivering enterprise software solutions using Agile scrum methodology.
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Job Type: Regular
Primary Location : Tampa , Florida
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Travel: No