Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Services

Primary Responsibilities 

As a Principal Software Engineer in our Cloud Services team, you will:  

• Code and support production deliverables which add to the UniFS suite of storage products 

• Participate in many cross-functional roles on small, highly productive Agile scrum team 

• Successfully lead multi-developer feature teams and ensure the efficient development of high-quality solutions. 

• Ensure effective collaboration with QA, Support, and Documentation groups. 

• Represent the team in technical discussions and be a key technical contributor to major new features. 

• Work with a multitude of AWS and Azure cloud services 

• Author tests and contribute to the development of the CI/CD pipeline 

• Collaborate with engineering management, product management and key stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications. 

• Respond to critical customer raised incidents in a timely manner, perform root cause analysis and implement preventative measures to avoid future incidents. 

• Provide technical leadership to more junior engineers. Mentor, provide guidance on best practices and career development. 

• Drive all team members to implement industry’s best practices for securing internet-facing applications. 

• Lead efforts to continuously improve development processes, tools, and methodologies. 

Technical Skills 

• Strong familiarity with developing and testing production code in a serverless environment 

• AWS – Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis 

• Azure - Container Apps, Blob Storage, CosmosDB, Service Bus, Event Hub 

• Python testing/mocking with pytest or equivalent testing packages 

• Proficiency with Docker, especially in CI/CD pipelines 

• Use of python cloud SDKs 

• boto3 for AWS API calls 

• azure-sdk-for-python for Azure API calls 

• Pydantic for data modeling 

• FastAPI for REST implementation 

• Experience using infrastructure as code technologies - ideally CDK for AWS and Bicep for Azure 

• Demonstrated experience with common web services and distributed systems technologies, architectures and related practices to make them reliable, observable, supportable 

• AWS and/or Azure certifications a plus 

Experience 

• BE/B.Tech, ME/M.Tech in computer science (or) Electronics and Communications (or) MCA 

• 9  to 12 years previous experience in the industry. At least 7+ years of experience in production python development.