Principal Software Engineer

The role:

As a Principal Software Engineer at Galileo, you will lead broad, impactful projects across multiple teams as one of the senior-most technical contributors. Your influence will span across teams, projects and locations, shaping both our technical direction as well as how our teams build and operate software systems.

You will be hands-on and in the details as an exemplary practitioner for both the software we develop, as well as the tools and techniques we use to test, release and operate it. You will help teams evolve code-bases to ship improvements safely and frequently. As part of this, you will steward a broader engineering community and mentor others.

You will proactively identify the problems to solve and advocate for the right organization priorities. This role is inherently cross-functional and you will work closely with engineering, product, risk, compliance, data, legal, and executive teams to define and execute on technical strategy. You’ll face and solve a wide range of challenges: technical, product, and operational, shaping your personal growth and career along the way.

What you’ll do:

• Be a technical advisor to the VP of Engineering, weighing in on a variety of topics concerning the evolution of our platform.
• Own driving Galileo’s software architecture and systems forward, setting long term direction and executing on it across multiple teams and quarters. While we have a strong need for a focus on our data architecture and data engineering systems, your role will be exposed to the entirety of our platform.
• Build as an exemplary practitioner: you will get to be hands-on developing software, and set a high quality standard for teams to follow.
• Define the right boundaries, APIs, and integrations between our teams and with our clients and partners to set us up for technical and business success.
• Solve complex engineering problems endemic to high-availability, low-latency, scalable distributed systems.
• Execute large-scale projects, leading design, planning, and execution across multiple teams to drive technical directions and product outcomes.
• Proactively identify broader problems and opportunities. Anticipate and design the next generation of our systems and products.
• Raise the quality of our engineering teams: you will identify opportunities and advocate for improvements to the way we write software, our approach testing and quality, and shape the habits and processes of highly effective teams.
• Mentor and coach to individuals and teams across the company. Steward engineering communities, fostering design collaboration and mindshare.
• Articulate how technical architecture and team structure interact, provide input to the right organization structure to deliver on our engineer goals.
• Strategic advisor to leadership, representing technical strategy to business and executive stakeholders, and participating in strategic planning.

• Continuously drives improvement, new practices and operational excellence initiatives across the department (e.g. multiple groups). 
• Raises the quality of department and products. Be able to stand up processes, mechanisms, or tools to improve engineering excellence, operations, and quality of our technology.
• Through a combination of working through others and their contribution, improves the department's systems by championing improvements in code, design, and operational reviews. Leads initiatives that improve department software quality and operations.  Be a stakeholder in engineering norms and standards for code quality, software quality, and operational excellence for your department.

What you’ll need:

• 10+ years programming experience, mastery of software development independent of language
• Advanced expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems, applications, databases, and workflows.
• Demonstrated experience with continuous delivery principles and techniques: you’ve built systems with layered test automation that is always safe for automated releases to production, enabling a great, low-cycle time developer experience.
• A high standard for what “great” looks like, and experience continuously improving legacy systems to reach it.
• Strong judgment, experience recognizing and driving out critical decisions in a balanced and pragmatic way.
• Experience building systems with public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, Spanish a plus.
• Ability to lead and influence technical direction across multiple teams.