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The Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure leads the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems. This role involves designing fault-tolerant components capable of handling high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads while ensuring in-service upgradability through redundancy, replication, and automatic failover. You will optimize code and data paths, manage network unreliability using load-shedding and rate-limiting, and establish KPIs through telemetry and proactive dashboards. Key responsibilities include designing complex validation scenarios like fault injection, implementing data synchronization for correctness, and managing security controls in multi-tenant environments. You will utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation and maintain compliance documentation. The work focuses on solving complex problems regarding system reliability, durability, and performance for large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing within a distributed computing environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.