Principal Software Engineering Manager

Are you interested in building hyper-scale distributed systems and scaling them even further? At the Web Data Platform Team, we build the global web scale Index and the platform that supports it. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer Manager to help us further scale our platform in Web Crawler team that is fundamental to all Search and Recommendation scenarios.

• Manages, coaches and guides a team of engineers
• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python
• OR equivalent experience

• Health insurance
• 401k matching
• Flight privileges
• Generous time away
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Savings and investments
• Discounts on products and services

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