Principal Software Engineer

At Anaplan we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decisionmaking through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the whos who in the Fortune 50. CocaCola LinkedIn Adobe LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2400 global companies that rely on our bestinclass platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas we behave like leaders regardless of title we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we have fun celebrating our wins.

Supported by operating principles of being strategyled valuesbased and disciplined in youll be inspired connected developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and be your best self!

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team in York!!

Your Impact:

• Strategic Technical Leadership: Lead the longterm technical direction of the engineering team driving the evolution of scalable highperformance systems. Collaborate with senior leadership and crossfunctional teams to define and execute the companys technical vision aligning engineering efforts with broader business goals.
• Architecting CloudNative Systems: Design and implement cloudnative architectures that are globally scalable resilient and optimized for high availability disaster recovery and low latency. Lead the development of modern secure and scalable systems using AWS GCP Azure or similar cloud platforms.
• Innovation and Research: Drive innovation by researching and integrating cuttingedge technologies into the tech stack. Stay uptodate with the latest trends in software engineering cloud computing and data processing. Champion the adoption of best practices and innovative solutions to keep the company ahead of the technological curve.
• HighPerformance Systems Design: Lead the design and optimization of systems for performance scalability and reliability. Focus on streamlining workflows and ensuring highthroughput lowlatency operations for complex distributed systems.
• Mentorship & Team Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior midlevel and senior engineers. Promote best practices in coding architecture and system design. Foster a culture of ownership innovation and continuous improvement.
• CrossDepartmental Collaboration: Collaborate with product managers designers and other engineering teams to ensure alignment between engineering solutions and business requirements. Influence product roadmaps and technical priorities based on deep technical insights.
• Security and Compliance: Lead the design of secure software systems ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations and implementing security best practices in development deployment and maintenance processes.
• CI/CD and DevOps: Own the design development and optimization of CI/CD pipelines. Integrate automated testing infrastructure management and deployment processes to ensure continuous delivery and reliability. Champion DevOps best practices and infrastructureascode using tools like Terraform Docker and Kubernetes.
• System Monitoring and Performance Tuning: Establish and maintain monitoring logging and alerting solutions for system health performance and security. Continuously analyze and tune system performance to optimize resource utilization and reduce latency.
• Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with senior leadership business stakeholders and other departments to drive alignment and ensure the timely delivery of key initiatives. Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to clear concise documentation on system architecture processes and best practices. Foster knowledgesharing across teams through technical talks documentation and internal tools.

Your Qualifications:

• Experience: Professional experience in software engineering with experience in leadership or Principal Engineer role. Extensive experience in designing developing and deploying largescale systems.
• Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of software engineering principles and best practices particularly in Python Java or similar backend technologies. Expertise in designing and implementing distributed systems and cloudnative architectures.
• Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure. Expertise in designing and implementing scalable secure and resilient cloudnative systems usingAWS LambdaEC2S3Kubernetes and serverless architectures.
• Distributed Systems: Strong understanding of distributed systems microservices architectures and the challenges of building highthroughput lowlatency systems. Handson experience with tools likeApache KafkaRabbitMQApache Pulsar and other messaging systems for realtime data streaming.
• DevOps and Infrastructure Automation: Expertise in DevOps principles infrastructureascode and automation tools such asTerraformAnsibleDocker andKubernetes. Experience with building maintaining and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Big Data & Data Engineering: Strong background in processing large datasets and building data pipelines using platforms likeApache SparkDatabricksApache Flink or similar big data tools. Experience with batch and stream processing.
• Security: Indepth knowledge of security practices in cloud environments including identity management encryption and secure application development. Experience with securing APIs and cloudnative systems.
• Problem Solving & Debugging: Exceptional problemsolving skills with the ability to debug and resolve complex technical issues quickly. Ability to diagnose system performance bottlenecks and improve system efficiency.
• API Design & Microservices: Extensive experience with designing RESTful APIs and building microservices architectures. Knowledge ofGraphQLis a plus.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead technical initiatives mentor team members and drive architectural decisions. Proven ability to inspire and guide teams in best practices problemsolving and technical innovation.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams and effectively communicate technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders. Strong interpersonal skills for building relationships with business teams leadership and crossfunctional teams.

Desired Skills:

• Certifications: Certifications in cloud technologies (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Google Cloud Professional Architect etc. or DevOps practices (Certified Kubernetes Administrator Terraform etc. are a plus.
• Open Source Contributions: Contributions to opensource projects technical blogs or participation in speaking engagements at conferences or meetups are highly valued.
• Frontend Knowledge: While this role is primarily backendfocused familiarity with modern frontend technologies (React Angular etc. or fullstack development is beneficial for collaborating with frontend teams.

Education:

• A degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field is preferred but equivalent practical experience and contributions to the field may also be considered.

Our Commitment to Diversity Equity Inclusionand Belonging

Build your career in a place that thrives on diversity equity inclusion and belonging. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued regardless of gender identity or expression sexual orientation religion ethnicity age neurodiversity disability status citizenship or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process perform essential job functions and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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