Cognite - Principal Engineer - Software Development

Job Responsibilities :

- Understand company needs to define system specifications and communicate them to the software development teams.

- Understand Business requirements and utilize product knowledge to make decisions in line with company objectives.

- Able to make decisions along with the team on the choice of the tech stack.

- Passionate about writing code that is reusable, replicable, and scalable

- Own multiple systems and work with engineers, product managers, and engineering leaders to identify opportunities for business impact

- Participate in setting a vision and objectives for the team in alignment with business and market needs

- Provide mentorship in framework design to engineer product development teams

- Steer and collaborate effectively with the team of developers and engineers till the product goes live. Ensure the implementation of the agreed architecture and infrastructure

- Providing technical leadership and support to software development teams. Oversee assigned programs (e. g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members.

Job Requirements :

- B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience.

- Minimum 9+ years of experience in software development using one or more of Go / NodeJs / Java and the

ability to manage complex programs

- Experience in data modeling, distributed system design, creating and managing microservice architecture, and communication protocol

- Must have experience in working with NoSQL databases (Mongo | ES | Cassandra). Good to have exposure to SQL databases (Postgres | MySQL)

- Must have experience working on event-driven architecture with exposure to one of the messaging systems (Kafka , Google Pub Sub , AWS SQS , RabbitMQ)

- Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)

- Strong knowledge of design principles, user interfaces, web standards, and usability.

- Excellent analytical, and people management skills with a problem-solving attitude.

Whats there for you ?

Our team handles everything infra, tooling, and self-manages a bunch of databases, such as :

- 150+ microservices with event-driven architecture across different tech stacks.

- More than 100,000 RPS of internet traffic on our edge gateways.

- ~20,000 events processed per second.

- 100s of TBs of data on self-managed databases.

- Real-time continuous deployments at scale.100s of deployments every week to production.

- Bleeding-edge tech like Golang, Mongo, ES, Kafka, Kubernetes, Istio