Senior Principal Engineer, Borrow

Senior Principal Engineer Borrow

We are seeking an accomplished Senior Principal Engineer with a strong background in developing and scaling cloud infrastructure and this role you will spearhead the design and implementation of our internal developer platform a critical component of SoFis technology strategy. You will collaborate with engineering leaders and principal engineers across the organization to create a seamless and efficient developer experience enabling our engineering teams to build and deliver high-quality products at high velocity. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with a deep understanding of cloud technologies developer tools and platform architecture and a proven track record of driving large-scale infrastructure projects. This role is inherently cross-functional and you will work closely with engineering product marketing risk compliance data science operations legal and executive teams to set forth a strategy define and prioritize a vision. Youll play a critical role delivering solutions that enable our engineers to get things done while driving our businesses forward; bridging engineering systems across products and teams in shaping the broader technical architecture.

Youll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical product and operational shaping your personal growth and career along the way.

What youll do:

Design build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services

that empower our engineering teams.

Partner with cross-functional teams to understand their needs and pain points and translate them into technical solutions.

Drive the adoption of best practices in cloud infrastructure including infrastructure as code CI/CD and observability.

Mentor and guide other engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends and proactively identify opportunities to improve our platform.

What youll need:

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related technical field.

15 years of software development experience with significant experience working on cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.

Deep expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS is preferred but GCP and Azure are relevant) containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes Docker) and related technologies.

Strong programming skills and experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform Ansible etc.).

Full stack operator: ability to both create and execute the business and product strategy; with clear objectives but limited ambiguous or varied direction

Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Who you are:

You are customer-obsessed and have an affinity for solving complex problems and shipping impactful features and make pragmatic high judgment decisions without letting perfection become the enemy of progress.

You demonstrate extremely high levels of technical knowledge ingenuity and creativity.

You work and play well with others; SoFi is a highly collaborative workplace and a melting pot of diverse talent.

You are confident in asking difficult questions and challenging your team while also keenly listening and taking feedback.

You are a voracious learner - you have the ability to quickly and independently acquire proficiency in new languages and technologies.

You value mentorship and constantly look for ways to improve the technical depth of the individuals on your teams.

You are open to feedback and comfortable engaging in continuous learning processes to improve how you work as well as what we work on.

Required Experience:

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