Principal Software Engineer
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CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information analytics and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100 CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the worlds real estate empowering all people to discover properties insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. Weve continually refined transformed and perfected our approach to our business creating a language that has become standard in our industry for our customers and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers our employees and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
We develop CoStars customerfacing Real Estate Analytics products. We think big creating innovative dataintensive applications that take the vast amount of data collected by our CoStar Research teams to create a fast reliable and intuitive analytics platform for our customers.
Our CoStar Benchmark product development team is looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to own the architecture and design of our software systems from full stack web products to highvolume secure data pipelines. This role includes design of new greenfield systems so being able to convert product requirements to system architecture is essential. It will also help guide the ongoing architectural evolution of our current solutions meaning the ability to fully understand existing complex systems is required as well.
It is a highly collaborative role that comes with great influence on the technical solutions we are building and requires strong communication and cooperation across multiple teams and disciplines. This includes developers within the same team and Software Architects throughout the company. To be successful in this role you must be a problemsolving collaborative person with deep technical skills and the ability to work in a secure performant enterprisescale environment.
This position will be located in Nashville TN and is in office Monday through Thursday and work from home on Friday.
Responsibilities
- Work in partnership with Product and Technology leadership to deeply understand a projects complex functional requirements and drive implementation of appropriate technical solutions.
- Collaborate with development teams to determine the right architectural direction based on project needs level of effort resourcing timing etc.
- Understand existing systems and ensure they are well documented so that you become a goto source of architectural information across multiple systems.
- Act as an architectural subject matter expert and source of good advice to technical leadership and developers.
- Drive and evangelize architectural principles and guidelines to ensure high quality consistent results across teams.
- Partner with engineering managers to ensure that they are following established architectural best practices.
- Create organize and maintain architectural diagrams and other system documentation.
- Provide architectural guidance and mentoring to other technical staff on topics such as microservices microfrontends highvolume data streaming / event processing etc.
- Stay up to date and evaluate emerging technologies and development practices to identify how they might improve our systems.
- Develop a deep understanding of the CoStar business and how the technical work we are doing aligns with that strategy.
- Advocate for and design solutions that are wellinstrumented so that we are confident we are building stable highperformance products.
- Be a goto resource in the understanding and diagnosis of complex performance scalability and reliability issues.
- Be an advocate for security and ensure that we are architecting and building secure software products and platforms.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree preferably in Computer Science/Engineering from an accredited not for profit university or college.
- 10 years of handson experience in designing highly complex enterpriselevel web applications including deep knowledge of microservices serverless data and web applications.
- Experience designing and buildings secure systems and security minded development practices. Experience with financial data is a big plus.
- Extensive experience in software engineering with expertlevel proficiency in at least one of these programming languages: C# Java Python JavaScript/TypeScript. Exposure to languages and platforms across the full web application stack is a big plus (e.g. Apollo GraphQL).
- Significant handson experience designing and implementing solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) services including Lambda DynamoDB CloudWatch CloudFormation SNS/SQS S3 API Gateway ElastiCache DataBricks etc.
- Experience modeling and implementing largescale relational and NoSQL database systems.
- Experience designing/implementing eventoriented architectures and realtime data streaming solutions.
- Strong ability to communicate through architectural diagrams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Architectlevel certifications from AWS Azure or GCP
- Experience with agile development methodologies.
- Experience with modern source control and CI/CD technologies including Git or Azure DevOps.
- Experience establishing software development best practices including standards code reviews source control builds testing and operations.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code in Terraform.
- Experience in observability logging/tracing with CloudWatch DataDog and/or Kibana.
- Experience building highly secure software including tokenization OpenID etc.
- Team or project leadership experience is a plus.
Whats in it for You
When you join CoStar Group youll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
We offer you generous compensation and performancebased incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training tuition reimbursement and an interoffice exchange program.
Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
- Life legal and supplementary insurance
- Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
- Commuter and parking benefits
- 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Onsite fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent) with yoga studio Pelotons personal training group exercise classes
- Access to CoStar Groups Diversity Equity & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
- Complimentary gourmet coffee tea hot chocolate fresh fruit and other healthy snacks
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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drugfree workplace and perform preemployment substance abuse testing
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Employment Type
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