Principal Systems Software Engineer

What were looking for:
YOU as a Principal Systems Software Engineer will have the opportunity to collaborate with the brightest engineering minds and work on cutting-edge technology like Data Engineering / Data Platform.

Position Overview:
Citrix ADC (Application Delivery Controller) team is on a mission to provide the best application delivery experience for various application architectures including the ones deployed on cloud-native infrastructure.
This position is responsible for the Design and Development for Citrix ADC team primarily on Data Platform / Engineering.

Roles Responsibilities and Personal attributes:
Design and implement features/enhancements for Data Platform on ADC
Self-starter - highly motivated and able to work productively with minimal guidance
Strong team player with ability to deal with stress
Should be able to prioritize tasks
Should have the ability to deliver high quality software under aggressive release schedules
Should work collaboratively with multiple teams/engineers and be willing to take on any engineering tasks that contribute to progress towards the goals of the team and of the company

Basic Qualifications:
BS/MS/PhD in CS/EC/EE or equivalent
Minimum of 11-14 years of proven Architecture Design and Development experience in complex / Distributed Software Systems
Desired Skills:
Experience in Enterprise Data platform development Data/Log generation/export/analysis
Experience in developing and operating distributed systems
Design and implement features related to integration of various Cloud end points such as Prometheus Elastic Search etc.
Outstanding programming skills with at least one OOP ( preferably C ) and/or Functional programming language ( Preferably C) Python
Expertise in Data Structures and Algorithms
Good analytical and problem-solving skills Debugging skills
Exposure to Networking concepts/fundamentals
Proficiency in Unix/Linux development platform
Experience with some of the key big data technologies: Hadoop Spark Kafka Sqoop Hive Presto Parquet etc.
Experienced in ETL process such as setting up data points data ingestion data manipulation and data transformation.
Experience with database and other persistence storage (e.g. Postgres Elasticsearch Cassandra Redis S3 HDFS MySQL)

Preferred Skills
Experience in Containerization technologies like Docker kubernetes
Experience with API Development: WS RESTful or SOAP/WSDL etc.
Good understanding of Cloud technologies and hands-on development/deployment experience on AWS/Azure/GCP
Experience on Traffic Management / Server Load balancer is a strong plus
Exposure to Systems/Server software development Multi-threaded programming
Experience with analytics technologies like PySpark

About Us:

Cloud Software Group is one of the worlds largest cloud solution providers serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group you are making a difference for real people each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn dream and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color creed sex or gender sexual orientation gender identity gender expression ethnicity national origin ancestry citizenship religion genetic carrier status disability pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status) marital status military service protected veteran status political activity or affiliation taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

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