Senior Principal Software Engineer - C, C++, Golang, Linux

What you'll do

• Lead a team of engineers with varied skills and experience
• Develop project plans and coordinate with engineering and product leads
• Research, design, and build highly reliable, scalable, low latency platforms
• Develop highly scalable, reliable, low latency distributed backend platforms and services
• Research emerging technologies and prepare POCs
• Innovate and optimize architecture and designs
• Collaborate with teams to audit and ensure platform stability
• Collaborate with Data Center and DevOps teams for planning and optimizations
• Apply best practices for software development and documentation
• Apply Generative AI in product development phases
• Demonstrate ownership, self-direction, and timely delivery
• Review major designs and architecture changes

Requirements

• Ten plus years of development experience in C/C++, Linux/UNIX environment
• Good to have experience with Go language
• Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and advanced data structures
• Solid knowledge of computer science principles
• Experience in software design and architecture
• Experience building complex and scalable solutions
• Ability to find optimal solutions and innovate
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to use generative AI-based tools and IDE
• Understanding of different AI models at basic level
• Prompt engineering basics
• Knowledge of OS and system programming (multi-threading, multi-processing, memory management)
• Troubleshoot production issues
• Write clean, modular, loosely coupled code
• Understand end-to-end product functionality
• Working knowledge of scripting (Perl/Python/Shell)
• Experience with databases, preferably MySQL
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (CS/IT) or equivalent

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Benefits