Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Galileo as a Principal Software Engineer and lead broad, impactful projects across multiple teams, shaping technical direction and software systems. As a senior-most technical contributor, you will be hands-on in the details, stewarding a broader engineering community and mentoring others.

Requirements

• 10+ years programming experience, mastery of software development independent of language
• Advanced expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems, applications, databases, and workflows
• Demonstrated experience with continuous delivery principles and techniques: you’ve built systems with layered test automation that is always safe for automated releases to production, enabling a great, low-cycle time developer experience
• A high standard for what “great” looks like, and experience continuously improving legacy systems to reach it
• Strong judgment, experience recognizing and driving out critical decisions in a balanced and pragmatic way
• Experience building systems with public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, Spanish a plus
• Ability to lead and influence technical direction across multiple teams

Responsibilities

• Be a technical advisor to the VP of Engineering, weighing in on a variety of topics concerning the evolution of our platform
• Own driving Galileo’s software architecture and systems forward, setting long term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters
• Build as an exemplary practitioner: you will get to be hands-on developing software, and set a high quality standard for teams to follow
• Define the right boundaries, APIs, and integrations between our teams and with our clients and partners to set us up for technical and business success
• Solve complex engineering problems endemic to high-availability, low-latency, scalable distributed systems
• Execute large-scale projects, leading design, planning, and execution across multiple teams to drive technical directions and product outcomes
• Proactively identify broader problems and opportunities. Anticipate and design the next generation of our systems and products
• Raise the quality of our engineering teams: you will identify opportunities and advocate for improvements to the way we write software, our approach testing and quality, and shape the habits and processes of highly effective teams
• Mentor and coach to individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities, fostering design collaboration and mindshare
• Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact, provide input to the right organization structure to deliver on our engineer goals
• Strategic advisor to leadership, representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders, and participating in strategic planning
• Continuously drives improvement, new practices and operational excellence initiatives across the department (e.g. multiple groups)
• Raises the quality of department and products. Be able to stand up processes, mechanisms, or tools to improve engineering excellence, operations, and quality of our technology

Benefits

Competitive benefits