Principal Software Engineer - Metadata

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Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
Design, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system including a decentralized caching system of terabytes of metadata with an ever growing request rate.
Design and implement core foundational features including transactions, DDL/DML logs, metadata API as well as advanced features built on top of the metadata, such as declarative entity management and integrations to support developer toolchains.
Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.

14+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Sharp original thinking to make the right choices and guide teams.
Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, etc. Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred.
Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems.
Knowledge of database internals is a big plus.
Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations.
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

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