Principal Engineer, SW, Cloud backend technical lead

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

About the Role

In this role you will help to shape and drive Harman’s cloud-based automotive software development toolchains as part of Harman’s broader software products portfolio. You will lead to create and implement backend solution for CQuence Loop. In this role you will design, code and work with the team in defining the overall architecture and implementation for CQuence Loop backend services.

You will be responsible for the continued transformation of HARMAN automotive into a leading tech player in software.  You are an inspiring leader for our global team and your global peers, who shows both the technical and business acumen to rapidly grow our product family and its corresponding business in a rapidly growing eco-system. 

Your Team

You will start as Individual Contributor but will be able to build a small team of engineers over time. You will not have any direct reports.

What You Will Do

• Design and implement a cloud based virtual development platform for automotive software development.
• Own and deliver the Server backend solution for cloud based virtual development platform
• Be up to date on latest cloud technologies and automotive industry trends. Should be able to adapt quickly to new technologies.
• Do code reviews, design reviews and technically guide the team for cloud development.
• Work collaboratively with the rest of the engineering organization to influence overall system architecture and design.
• Work with our architecture team to define the architecture/design and to ensure they are consistent with Cloud best practices and are reasonable to implement from a technical perspective.
• Think out of the box when it comes to defining unique ways users can use virtual development platform for Automotive.
• Should be capable of leading and mentoring junior developers in the team.
• Implement the deployment as infrastructure as code.
• identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Monitoring system performance and capacity utilization
• Work collaboratively with the rest of the engineering organization to influence overall system architecture and design.
• Be capable of developing using an agile methodology, providing daily reviews of code and builds.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent; BE with MBA would be preferred
• 8-11 years of software development experience with cloud backend solution.
• At least 6 year experience in cloud backend and expertise in Virtualization, Container orchestration (Kubernetes/openshift), SOA, Microservices, Cloud Networking, Disaster recovery and Load balancing, SLAs.
• Experience working with Azure public cloud.
• GIT, Gerrit, github, Jenkins, Travis, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible experience
• Strong problem-solving skills and awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.
• Expertise in scripting languages like python, Ruby
• Must bring top-notch management skills and a deep appreciation of development tools, techniques, systems, and solutions.
• Ability to solve the problem independently.
• Think out of the box when it comes to defining unique ways users can use virtual development platform for Automotive.
• Should be capable of leading and mentoring junior developers in the team.
• Demonstrate experience owning a feature from requirements analysis through to general availability in market. Should be a self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision and manage time effectively.

What is Nice to Have

• Experience working with AWS, and Google cloud public cloud
• Good experience in building SaaS products.

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 25%, domestic and international travel
• Be willing to work in various India locations

• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location
• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
• Competitive wellness benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.