Sr Principal Software Engineer
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Job Summary
About the Business:-
At LexisNexis Risk Solutions Company we believe in the power of data and advanced analytics for better risk management. With over 40 years of expertise we are the trusted data analytics provider for organizations seeking actionable insights to manage risks and improve results while upholding the highest standards for security and privacy. Headquartered in metro Atlanta LexisNexis Risk Solutions serves customers in more than 100 countries and is part of RELX Group plc a world-leading provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. For more information please visit . LexisNexis Risk Solutions is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race color creed religion sex national origin citizenship status disability status protected veteran status age marital status sexual orientation gender identity genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system that individual should please contact 1.877.734.1938 or
About the Team:
The LexisNexis Risk Solutions Threat Metrix engineering team is an international team that includes experts in device identification device intelligence fraud detection high performance and low latency real time systems Software as a Service (SaaS) applications machine learning and data analytics. We are an Agile engineering team using concepts such as Scrum Continuous Integration self-organizing teams and Continuous Improvement.
What this role really is
We already have 200 engineers who can take a well-specified problem and ship it. This isnt that.
Labs exists to have the headspace that the rest of the org doesnt: time to follow a hunch dig into something that smells wrong or prove out an idea nobody asked for. Most of what you chase will be your own idea. Some of it will amount to nothing. Occasionally and this is the whole point one of those investigations changes what the company is capable of.
What the work actually looks like
The ceiling Sometimes its spotting that an existing subsystem can do something far beyond what it was built for and building the small bridge that unlocks an entirely new class of capability. Weve done this. It reshaped the product.
A good month - Profiling a hot path everyone had given up on and clawing back a 20% reduction in system load. Unglamorous measurable deeply satisfying.
An honest dead-end - Spending weeks proving a promising idea doesnt pay off and writing it up so nobody wastes that time again. Here thats a success not a failure. If you need a guaranteed win on every project this isnt for you.
Who you are
- Youve been the person others bring impossible problems to.
- You think in terms of what the machine is really doing - memory cache behaviour NUMA the cost of a syscall.
We expect solid C/C experience mostly because its the clearest sign
you have that mental model.
- Youre a genuine polyglot. Our product spans C Java Go JavaScript Swift and the usual scripting. Nobody knows it all; youre the kind of person who lands in an unfamiliar stack and is useful within days.
- Youre a self-starter whos also low-ego... youll happily parachute into another teams code read it and earn the trust to change it.
Bonus points
- A reflex to reach for a profiler before a guess.
- Reverse-engineering debugging unfamiliar systems and reading other peoples code for sport.
- A trail of self-initiated projects - the I got nerd-sniped and rebuilt it kind.
- Comfort at the system and network level not just in application code.
What you dont need
- A CS degree. It probably helps. I dont have one.
- Our exact stack on day one. Show me you can get there fast.
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