Principal Software Engineer Core Platform Infrastructure - Seattle
Principal Software Engineer Core Platform Infrastructure - Seattle
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Job Description
At Qualtrics we create software the worlds best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences build highperforming teams and design products people love. But we are more than a platformwe are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit determination and a disdain for conventionbut most of all it requires closeknit highfunctioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams youll be part of a nimble group thats empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You wont have to look to find growth opportunitiesready or not theyll find you. From retail to government to healthcare were on a mission to bring humanity connection and empathy back to business. Join over 5000 people across the globe who think thats work worth doing.
When you join one of our teams youll be part of a nimble group thats empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You wont have to look to find growth opportunitiesready or not theyll find you. From retail to government to healthcare were on a mission to bring humanity connection and empathy back to business. Join over 5000 people across the globe who think thats work worth doing.
Principal Software Engineer Core Platform & Infrastructure Seattle
Why We Have This Role
Our team is a collection of extremely passionate engineers who are riding the cutting edge of cloud computing and web scalability.
We design and maintain the scalable infrastructure that empowers our engineering teams to build and deploy innovative solutions efficiently. Our team collaborates closely with other engineering groups providing the foundational platform and support they need to create impactful products. We are committed to choosing the best technologies for each challenge and youll have plenty of opportunities to make a significant contribution across our stack; from cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to developer tools and automation.
We design and maintain the scalable infrastructure that empowers our engineering teams to build and deploy innovative solutions efficiently. Our team collaborates closely with other engineering groups providing the foundational platform and support they need to create impactful products. We are committed to choosing the best technologies for each challenge and youll have plenty of opportunities to make a significant contribution across our stack; from cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to developer tools and automation.
How Youll Find Success
- As a Software Engineer at Qualtrics you should love building simple solutions to solve hard scalability problems.
- Designing systems in an agile environment to withstand spiky load as well as organic growth and owning quality from end to end is a rewarding challenge and one of the reasons Qualtrics is such an exciting place to work.
- You will be working on the Core Platform and Infrastructure team building the foundation that all other engineering teams rely on.
- Succeeding on this team will involve being effective in multiple domains each with their own dedicated teams collaborating effectively with them to understand their needs and communicate CP&I capabilities and constraints.
- Youll operate with a high degree of autonomy identifying the most important problems across the team and driving the of their solutions. You will represent the CP&I team in discussions and designs with engineering leadership.
How Youll Grow
- Qualtrics is a fast paced dynamic environment where you will have the opportunity to build on and expand your experience through working on high impact projects utilizing cutting edge tools and technologies troubleshooting challenging problems and working alongside like minded and driven technical professionals.
- As a Principal Software Engineer you will also increase your scope by working through multiple teams within our group as well as collaborating with the larger principal engineering community in the company.
- Youll have many opportunities to identify and tackle strategic issues in a variety of areas across engineering and the product.
- You will find solutions that achieve the right balance for the business in terms of quality elasticity cost performance and scalability.
Things Youll Do
- Develop scalable fast robust and simple cloudbased solutions to solve complex business problems related to core platform and infrastructure.
- Implement new features and optimize existing ones to drive maximum performance of our infrastructure.
- Work closely with and incorporate feedback from other engineers and business partners
- Attend daily standup meetings collaborate with your peers prioritize features and work with a sense of urgency to deliver value to your customers our internal developers.
- Build and maintain common infrastructure components for a large engineering organization.
- Deliver features and improvements that directly impact the productivity and efficiency of internal developers.
What Were Looking For On Your Resume
- 12 years of relevant experience.
- Strong level of curiosity and interest to learn.
- Strong algorithms data structures and coding background.
- Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance.
- Experience with Micro services Architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience with professional software engineering practices (e.g. unit testing code reviews).
- Extensive AWS Administration experience including but not limited to: EC2 S3 IAM Lambda etc.
- Experience working on common infrastructure for a large engineering organization.
- Experience delivering features for internal developers.
What You Should Know About This Team
The Core Platform and Infrastructure team is responsible for a diverse set of areas for the engineering organization. These include Networking Cloud Architecture Compute platforms (from VMs to container orchestration through server less workloads) Observability (o11y) Developer Experience and more. You are unlikely to find another team with exposure to so many technical areas. You will contribute to roadmap planning across all these areas and drive cross team initiatives. You will lay the groundwork and platform for the direction of the engineering platform for years to come.
All our teams operate within a DevOps culture. Some things you will take part in:
- You will ensure our platform exceeds goals for availability capacity efficiency scalability and performance
- You will dedicatedly monitor endtoend system performance to identify bottlenecks potential failures and deliver service capacity planning and demand forecasting.
- You will communicate w/ engineers & partners and describe problems succinctly to enable issue management
Our Teams Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Wellness Reimbursement for $300 per quarter for wellness activities including gym memberships spa massages workout equipment meditation apps and much more.
- $1800 Experience bonus to be used for an Experience of your choosing
- Amazing QGroup Communities; MOSAIQ Green Team Qualtrics Pride QAble Qualtrics Salute and Womens Leadership Development which exist as places for support allyship and advocacy.
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful inperson days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week work where you want owning the integration of work and life.
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other protected characteristic.
Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws:Family & Medical Leave ActEqual Opportunity EmploymentEmployee Polygraph Protection Act
Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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For fulltime positions this pay range is for base per year; however base pay offered may vary depending on location jobrelated knowledge education skills and experience.A signon bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer in addition to a range of medical financial and other benefits based on eligibility criteria.
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$203000$369500 USD
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