Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Tripadvisor's SEO team as a Principal Software Engineer and lead the development and evolution of our SEO platform. You will build tools leveraging extensive datasets, define the technology roadmap, and mentor a team of engineers. This role requires 10+ years of engineering experience, a computer science degree, and deep experience with large datasets. The position offers a fully remote, hybrid, or office-based option and a competitive salary range of $150,000 to $215,000. You'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and impacting millions of Tripadvisor users.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a professional engineer
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• Deep experience querying, ETLing, and analyzing large data sets in databases
• Prior experience running and executing large scale initiatives successfully
• Prior partnerships with business leaders, working collaboratively to achieve substantial goals
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO design

Responsibilities

• Build and drive a technical roadmap for our SEO platform
• Design solutions to business problems by building new tools and/or processes
• Take on projects with independence and a mandate to leave things better than you found them
• Be pragmatic when solving problems with a deep understanding of the purpose and goal of your work
• Be integral for the code quality on your team through leadership in design and code review
• Be a mentor for others on the team
• Help bring the team's technical knowledge and solutions to the engineering organization via tech talks and design reviews

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience managing Linux systems and JBOD/RAID infrastructure
• Experience working with HTML/CSS and interacting with the DOM
• Some exposure to the following technologies: Python, Perl, SQL, Snowflake, React, Postgres, Gradle, BERT, AWS

Benefits

• Fully remote, hybrid or office based
• Base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $215,000