Principal Cloud Hosted Services Engineer

MagnopusLos Angeles, CA

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Principal Cloud Hosted Services Engineer who is at home developing complex multi-tier software applications and collaborating with cross-functional international teams to drive the technical strategy for our cloud infrastructure. As a Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud-based hosted services that are critical to our organization's success.

Requirements

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent knowledge in designing and developing complex, multi-tier, cloud-native software applications
  • Advanced knowledge in architecting cloud solutions in GCP or AWS (we are migrating from AWS to GCP)
  • Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes (EKS and/or GKE)
  • Advanced experience with automating the provisioning of cloud resources using infrastructure as code (we use Terraform)
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI (we use TeamCity and GitHub Actions)
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as DataDog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, and Kibana (we use DataDog and are migrating to Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana for monitoring and ELK stack for logs)
  • Experience with a high-level language like C#, Java, JavaScript, or Golang (we use C#, C++, JavaScript, and Python)
  • Creating and consuming RESTful web services and experience with 3rd party APIs
  • Well-versed in optimizing database queries to NoSQL databases (we use MongoDB)
  • Good understanding of design patterns
  • Experience leveraging LLMs and operating Agents to assist with tasks and development

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with big data, stream processing and machine learning algorithms
  • Experience with geospatial applications & databases
  • Working in an agile environment (we use a mix of Scrum and Kanban)
  • Experience or knowledge of dependency injection
  • Experience with real-time, multiplayer services
  • Google Cloud Certification
  • Experience with Kubernetes-adjacent tooling like Helm, Kustomize, and ArgoCD
  • Understanding of effective unit testing and experience with Visual Studio Tests or NUnit
  • Experience creating mock objects using Moq, NSubstitute or other mocking framework

Responsibilities

  • Work with product owners to develop the product vision and roadmap
  • Provide all of the product teams with technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance
  • Document and diagram proposed solutions, and ensure documentation and diagrams remain current for all deployments.
  • Advise end-to-end development of new features from concept through testing and deployment
  • Mentor others in the writing of clean, well-documented, testable OOP code following KISS/SOLID principles
  • Mentor others in how to develop cloud-native applications
  • Advocate for non-functional requirements like performance, versioning, deployability, configurability, observability, scalability, security, etc.
  • Meticulous attention to detail and high quality of work
  • Build up and maintain our DevOps/CI environment through research, implementation and monitoring
  • Create alerts and data mine logs and metrics for issues in cloud hosted services and the client applications that call to the services
  • Ability to design and architect service level componentry
  • Spike testing and rapid prototyping

Benefits

  • ongoing education
  • mentorship opportunities
  • generous health care
  • time off

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What This Job Offers

Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Principal

Education Level

No Education Listed

Number of Employees

101-250 employees

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