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Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the Cloud Performance Organization to address service inefficiencies, reduce cloud expenses, and improve customer experience through enhanced scalability. This role involves designing and building new cloud services from the ground up while leading the architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads. The engineer will develop fault-tolerant, highly available systems featuring robust observability, replication, and resilience mechanisms to meet strict SLOs. Key responsibilities include implementing infrastructure as code (IaC), automation for safe patching, and security measures like encryption and access controls in multi-tenant environments. The role requires expertise in data-plane platforms, performance testing, and incident response. This position focuses on the technical challenge of optimizing critical components and internal tools within a cloud infrastructure environment to ensure high availability and reliable performance across various core services.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $202800 from 326 postings across 28 companies.
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Processing
System Design
Telemetry
Monitoring
Alerting
Fault Injection
rate‑limiting
Encryption
Scalability