Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

What you'll do

• Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems that support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads.
• Optimize code and data paths while implementing load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting to handle network unreliability.
• Design fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover to ensure system durability and SLO compliance.
• Establish telemetry, KPIs, and proactive monitoring dashboards to identify performance gaps and system health issues.
• Conduct complex validation testing including fault injection and brown-outs to ensure data integrity and correctness.
• Proactively diagnose, debug, and resolve production issues while mentoring peers in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Implement robust security controls, encryption, and access management for multi-tenant environments.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools to manage cloud infrastructure and streamline change management.

What we're looking for

• Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
• Candidates must have 3 to 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience is required in designing and architecting scalable, elastic distributed systems.
• Proficiency in optimizing code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads is required.
• Skills in implementing fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms are required.
• Ability to develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripts for cloud infrastructure management is required.
• Experience in implementing security controls, encryption, and compliance documentation is required.
• Ability to perform proactive troubleshooting, incident management, and mentoring of peer engineers is required.