Hybrid Principal Software Engineer – BlueCat Cloud Platform bei Bluecat
Bluecat · Belgrade, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Hybrid
- Optionales Büro in Belgrade
Have you heard of BlueCat? We’re one of those hidden gems that’s been disrupting the market as a key player in the rapidly growing space of Intelligent Network Operations. Organizations require a new model of network operations that links foundational core services with a deep, predictive understanding of network health and performance to improve change readiness. BlueCat’s Intelligent NetOps is a first-to-market combination of systems of understanding and change. BlueCat enables teams to enhance agility and mitigate risks from high rates of change with a unified management lifecycle, from provisioning to proactive troubleshooting and remediation.
At BlueCat, we take immense pride in our award-winning culture, an integral part of our identity. We are proud recipients of several prestigious accolades, including the "Great Place to Work" certification. By becoming a part of our team, you not only join a company at the forefront of technology but also become an integral member of Canada's top workplaces in various categories, including Technology, Today's Youth and Women, and Mental Health and Inclusion.
The BlueCat Cloud Platform team is responsible for powering all BlueCat SaaS products. Our mission is to deliver BlueCat products on a reliable, fast, globally distributed, and cost-effective enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure. Central to this mission is our API-first strategy, as we fully embrace a product model where APIs are integral to everything we create.
We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Principal Engineer with strong leadership, communication, and collaboration abilities to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have expertise in cloud-native technologies, with a focus on distributed Kubernetes cluster.
Key Responsibilities:
You’ll work with the team to own the development of the BlueCat Cloud Platform, a large-scale distributed system built by leveraging technologies like Kubernetes, Redis, event-driven message bus systems, modern software architecture (asynchronous Python and Golang), and a plethora of Open Source technologies. You’ll contribute directly to powering BlueCat Cloud Platform at scale, working closely alongside the Application Teams.
You will be responsible for driving architectural decisions, leading complex projects, and mentoring a team of talented engineers. Your work will directly impact the scalability, performance, and reliability across all of BlueCat Cloud Platform, ensuring that it meets the demanding needs of versatile networking products.
High-Level Design and Architecture
•Influence the Cloud strategy by providing expert advice on design and architecture of the Platform Common Services
•Make critical decisions regarding technical directions, scalability, and system performance.
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create innovative solutions.
•Design, deploy, and maintain cloud-native solutions for provider neutral Cloud environments.
•Design and implement common services on Kubernetes clusters to support various applications and workloads.
•Develop and optimize orchestration mechanisms to ensure efficient resource utilization, high availability, and scalability.
•Implement robust security measures to protect edge computing infrastructure and data.
•Optimize network configurations to ensure low-latency communication and high availability.
•Implement data protection mechanisms to safeguard critical data processed from the edge to the core.
Team Leadership:
As a technical leader, you will be expected to lead other engineers to define our strategic technical direction, and to execute involved projects from design to launch. You will widely collaborate with other product teams and leaders globally to influence, set expectations, gather inputs and communicate results.
Qualifications:
•Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
•10+ years' experience in software engineering with around 5+ years commercial experience in cloud distributed systems and high scale designs with Golang and async Python,
•You are passionate about building great REST APIs (and helping others do the same).
•Experience in cloud technologies Kubernetes, Redis, Elastic Search, SQL or equivalent
•Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distributed systems, and load balancing with strong cloud service trouble-shooting skills.
•Passion for engineering rigor and operational excellence (design principles and patterns, unit testing, best practices for security and privacy, CI/CD etc). You will be a role model for operational responsibility and data-driven engineering rigor.
•Knowledge of networking fundamentals and beyond (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S)
•Experience in AWS (GCP and Azure is a plus)
•You should be able to hit the ground running from day one and be able to design, develop, test and deploy.
•With this Principal Engineer role being a central and key part of the future company direction, you will need to be a strong, clear communicator who is able to speak with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
•Highly desirable Kubernetes Application Develop Certifications (CKAD)
