Principal Software Engineer

Shutterfly is a company that helps people archive and share photos through its Snapfish brand. They are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of the Snapfish website, focusing on architectural efficiencies and new technology integrations across the full stack.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with engineering leaders, product management, key stakeholders to introduce architectural simplifications and consolidation across multiple technology stacks and disparate systems
• Stay on track with the latest technologies for the domain and apply the experience and knowledge towards architecture and product features
• Analyze and articulate the current state of the technology and propose valued alternatives wherever required
• Help define and implement the architectural roadmap and own key portions of the implementation
• Explain the status & value of proposed design/solution that meet preset goals of quality, security and performance to stakeholders
• Help guide and the activities of development teams

Requirements:

• At an expert level in distributed computing and storage, including significant experience with the following: server systems, storage, I/O, networking, and systems software
• At an expert level in advanced programming skills to build distributed storage and compute systems, backend services, microservices, and web technologies with the ability to switch between programming environments like Java, JavaScript, native programming as well as scripting languages such as Python/Terraform/Perl
• Expertise in the following systems & technologies and how they fit together: http and native clients, DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, CDNs, application servers, databases, and caches
• Expertise in building streaming applications using pub sub system, & search technologies
• Proficient with ECS or other containerization technologies
• Proficiency across a wide range of database technologies including relational, document oriented, column oriented and graph databases such Oracle, Mongo, Document DB
• Expertise in CI/CD technologies such as Chef, Jenkins, Ansible