Remote Principal Java Engineer

Summary

Join Rackspace Technology as a Principal Backend Java Engineer and work on large scale distributed systems, developing infrastructure and solving technical challenges in areas of distributed computing frameworks, data structures and algorithms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field of study. Master’s degree is preferred
• Minimum of 10+ years developing applications in core Java
• In-depth knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and systems
• E2E software development lifecycle experience, including building and maintaining production grade software
• Must have experience working within a GCP environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the English language
• Operability experience (logging, monitoring, alerting, debugging)
• Containerization knowledge (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with DevOps CI/CD, build tools – maven/gradle

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable and innovative robust Java code for content aggregation as well as for information indexing, retrieval, processing, and ranking
• Build, enhance, optimize, and deploy tools, workflows, systems to process textual data for extraction of relevant information
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of technical requirements and project goals
• Write detailed design documents, develop comprehensive automated tests, and coordinate automated deployments

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefer – Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Prefer – Experience with GCP
• Prefer - Experience with Cassandra or Spanner

Benefits

• The anticipated starting pay range for Colorado is: $161,000 - $236,060
• The anticipated starting pay range for the states of Hawaii and New York (not including NYC) is: $171,400 - $251,350
• The anticipated starting pay range for California, New York City and Washington is: $187,500 - $275,000