Principal, Software Engineer 1

DIRECTV, LLC is seeking a Principal, Software Engineer 1 to join its software engineering organization. The role focuses on designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting complex cloud-based software solutions while mentoring team members and contributing to architecture and technical roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with peers and design advertising software solutions based on the solutions architecture, business, and system requirements
• Design and develop end-to-end solutions managing dependencies and cross-team impacts
• Developed software code utilizing programming languages including Go/Python and the AWS cloud services tools and technologies
• Execute a rigorous quality assurance testing process to ensure the design and software code meet the requirements
• Comply with a rigorous software change deployment process with the goal of deploying developed and tested code into production so the business can realize the benefits defined
• Utilize experience in software development to provide solution-based outcomes for varied complex problems
• Mentor junior team members on Scrum team or development team by providing consistent guidance on technical approach and best practices
• Manage risk and request help from leadership when necessary to meet commitments or change directions
• Utilize experience in software engineering and the design, full-stack development of complex systems, including as a team lead
• Work in multiple Safe Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and familiarity with the tooling used to coordinate this work (Jira)
• Develop and deploy to cloud environments, AI-enabled tooling
• Deliver high-performance, accessible, and responsive applications using modern performance profiling and optimization techniques
• Utilize modern delivery and deployment practices, such as CI/CD, quality automation, test-driven development, and release strategies
• Contribute to software architecture decisions and technical roadmaps, aligning with organizational goals
• Utilize AWS cloud services (VPC, EC2, S3, EKS, SQS, Lambda, Kinesis, and IAM)
• Utilize Kubernetes
• Apply knowledge of logging infrastructure, monitoring, and dashboarding tools (SumoLogic, ELK/OpenSearch/CloudWatch)
• Utilize Shell scripting and Linux OS
• Utilize DB, Snowflake and SQL
• Support various levels of testing (Unit, Pair and System)

Requirements:

• Requires a Bachelor degree, or foreign equivalent degree, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered, or 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in a related occupation utilizing programming languages including Go/Python and the AWS cloud services tools and technologies; utilizing experience in software engineering and the design, full-stack development of complex systems, including as a team lead; working in multiple Safe Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and familiarity with the tooling used to coordinate this work (Jira); developing and deploying to cloud environments, AI-enabled tooling; delivering high-performance, accessible, and responsive applications using modern performance profiling and optimization techniques; utilizing modern delivery and deployment practices, such as CI/CD, quality automation, test-driven development, and release strategies; contributing to software architecture decisions and technical roadmaps, aligning with organizational goals; utilizing AWS cloud services (VPC, EC2, S3, EKS, SQS, Lambda, Kinesis, and IAM); utilizing Kubernetes; applying knowledge of logging infrastructure, monitoring, and dashboarding tools (SumoLogic, ELK/OpenSearch/CloudWatch); utilizing Shell scripting and Linux OS; utilizing DB, Snowflake and SQL; and supporting various levels of testing (Unit, Pair and System)