Principal Engineer (Go), Analytics

What you’ll do

• Contribute to the overall direction of the Analytics stage and company-wide reporting and analytics initiatives by collaborating and making proposals across several teams on their engineering work, and helping their team members make informed decisions in alignment with strategic plans
• Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts and individual contributors across several teams. Advise on resourcing requirements and provide feedback on promotions into technical leadership roles
• Plan improvements and features with a 12-month view and ensure that OKR-level goals are aligned across the stage
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity while looking for innovation opportunities between several teams and demonstrating a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope
• Interface with Engineering Managers and Senior Management, and enable Staff Engineers to engage on stage-level aspects of larger (sub-department wide) initiatives. Provide a point of escalation for sub-department teams facing complex technical challenges
• Propose initial technical implementations which support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your sub-department
• Identify slow and inefficient code across multiple products

Examples of initiatives you will work on

• Key member of the team providing architectural leadership for initiatives within and outside the Analytics stage including event-driven architecture, data platform development, reporting and analytics, and AI-powered insight development 
• Performance optimization - database decomposition, technical debt initiatives, scaling of features (moving features from the project to group to instance level) to support SaaS and self-managed customers
• Improved instrumentation and metrics to inform feature development and support results for customers
• Cross-stage alignment of technical direction within Analytics and across all the stages in the DevSecOps lifecycle

What you’ll bring 

• Significant professional experience as a Principal Engineer, or relevant hands-on management and leadership experience, across multiple development teams.
• Significant professional experience with Go. Significant experience with Ruby on Rails, Postgres, ClickHouse, NATS/Kafka are also a plus.
• Extensive experience building high-throughput, realtime distributed systems that perform reliably and at scale.
• Expert knowledge and experience in CI/CD using DevSecOps best practices and a strong interest working across analytics and insights development.
• Experience developing solutions that can scale from resource-constrained on-premise applications, to mission-critical SaaS platforms with tens of millions of users
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate complex problems and solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.