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Principal Engineer in USA

  • Herndon, VA

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a technical leader on demanding cross-functional EC2 projects.
  • Decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions and understand system interdependencies and limitations.
  • Provide expert guidance on performance, scalability, enterprise architecture, and engineering practices.
  • Mentor engineers and support career development across teams and the engineering community.
  • Influence multiple teams to improve productivity and effectiveness through technical leadership.
  • Make technology decisions using strong technical judgment and business judgment.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of hands-on professional engineering development experience.
  • Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineering teams.
  • Preferred: deep hands-on expertise in large-scale full-stack development, distributed systems, massive global networks, embedded systems, or complex hardware.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Positions are available in San Diego, Sunnyvale, New York, Herndon, and Seattle, USA.

Salary: $200k - $311k/yr

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