Senior Principal Engineer

GoodData is a cloud-based business intelligence platform revolutionizing the way in which companies provide analytics to their customers and partners. Our mission? To innovate and expand the boundaries of BI, reimagining the analytics experience to empower users at every level.

This role is ideal for a highly skilled software engineer who thrives in a technical leadership position, enjoys solving complex cross-team challenges, and wants to drive engineering excellence at the organisation level. 

What will you do?

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will work closely with development teams and influence company-level technical solutions and processes, ensuring alignment with product and business strategies. Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing complex cross-component solutions and solving tasks on the Gooddata platform level.

• Developing and maintaining Kotlin+Spring-based services for a containerized platform.

• Taking on the challenges of building a distributed, highly scalable application.

• Ability to quickly gain a high-level overview while efficiently deep-diving into technical details.

• Defining and contributing to the high-level technology vision and roadmap.

• Identifying and owning critical technical challenges and ensuring their resolution.

• Managing engineering-wide risks in collaboration with leadership.

• Collaborating with Product Management to understand technical and cost implications of feature requirements.

• Communicating big-picture technical direction and advocating for best practices across teams/individuals.

• Contributing to the design and implementation of internal and public APIs.

• Facilitation of technical Communities of Practice and sharing of best practices across teams.

What do we expect from you?

• Extensive experience with Kotlin/Java, Spring, and Java frameworks/technologies.

• Experience with designing and building distributed systems

• Proficiency in SQL/NoSQL database technologies.

• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Understanding of K8S Concepts and architecture

• Expertise in containerization solutions using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Passion for clean code, software architecture, and iterative development.

• Understanding of web technologies and protocols (HTTP, JSON, gRPC, Messaging).

• Ability to influence technical decisions and processes across multiple teams.

• Experience in diagnosing and resolving issues in complex, distributed systems.

• Strong proficiency in written and spoken English.

It is nice if you have

• Experience with Kotlin Coroutines and other advanced Kotlin concepts.

• MS or a similar degree in Computer Science/Engineering.

• Hands-on experience with Gradle, GitHub Actions (workflows), and Bash/Python scripting.

• Experience with REST API Design and OpenAPI standard

• understand and experience with implementing OIDC

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.

• Familiarity with BI platforms and Big Data technologies.

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes concepts and related tools (kubectl, helm, ingress).

• Experience with EKS/AKS

Our stack 

Our stack is deployed on Kubernetes, following a microservices architecture with services mostly written inKotlin with Spring Boot and Python. We leverage Apache Arrow for data processing. For efficient service-to-service communication we leverage gRPC or Pulsar for messaging. Data storage is handled via PostgreSQL and select NoSQL databases. The APIs are defined through OpenAPI, authentication is managed with OIDC.

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