Principal Engineer, Autonomy Developer Productivity

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Using your software and systems engineering skills to contribute code, perform code reviews, and create technical designs that improve performance and reliability of observability systems.
• Proactively identify and address challenges that create new opportunities to improve the state of engineering through observability.
• Partnering with Software Engineering teams to better understand use-cases and guide the engineers to use the existing tools effectively.
• Building tools to enable engineers to collect and act on observability signals from distributed cloud systems and on-vehicle sensors
• Influence the team’s technical roadmap by evaluating new tools and technologies through PoCs and selecting roadmap investments that align with our team vision
• Drive software engineering best practices both within your team and across the AV organization, and create tooling which encourages these
• Guide the team to find the right balance between delivering impact and addressing technical debt
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team and across the organization

Job requirements

• 10+ years of experience or proven record of defining and executing technical strategy that required coordination across multiple teams, senior executives, and front-line engineers
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field OR equivalent work experience
• Experience driving consensus on a multi-functional effort using influence without authority
• Experience in designing and implementing large scale systems
• Considerable experience in working with container orchestration systems (eg. Kubernetes)
• Proficient in designing and developing sophisticated distributed systems, with expertise in one or more high-level programming languages such as Go, Python, Rust, C/C++, NodeJS or equivalent
• Considerable experience with Unix/Linux, SSH, and networking fundamentals
• Effective collaboration skills and experience researching, documenting, communicating, and defending proposals and taking and giving critical feedback