Credit Acceptance · 7 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$213K/yr - $365K/yr
10+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Provide thought leadership and build platform engineering solutions that deliver high impact business value and deliver customer delight
Lead the design and implementation of platform engineering solutions that are scalable, reliable, resilient, reactive and maintainable
Collaborate with a diverse cross functional team including business partners, Product Managers and designers to define product requirements, direction and clarity
Drive technical innovation and improvements of the design and architecture of platform engineering towards leading edge technologies and practices
Define, develop and drive platform engineering best practices
Become an expert in the business process domains to better support the business and align technologies with the business outcomes
Work with the engineering leadership team to develop and execute on the company’s technical and business strategy
Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify impact of a change across multiple applications/systems
Perform technical due diligence and architectural assessments of third-party technologies and solutions
Define developer tooling improvements that will bring efficiency as we decompose a monolithic code base to decoupled services
Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions and recommend solutions
Document standards, best practices, and engineering artifacts so others can easily understand, build and maintain best in class platform engineering systems
In partnership with platform engineering domains, debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions
Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices
Grow talent by participating in hiring and mentoring team members
Develop standard architectural practices and lead solutions development across partner engineering groups
Define and document best practices and strategies regarding cloud deployments and maintenance
Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of quality and thoughtful design
Inventory runtime and observability tooling to assist in consolidation and optimization across engineering
Partner with leaders and engineering counterparts to drive improved runtime practices for Site Reliability
Assist in leading the transformation of our database automation practices as we shift from manual DB migrations to pipeline driven DB migrations
Drive strategic cloud direction in partnership with cloud engineering team; inclusive of a comprehensive FinOps strategy to ensure cloud cost optimization is a continuous focus
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
Minimum 10 years of cloud, infrastructure, site-reliability and pipeline automation experience or comparable depth of experience
Experience developing and managing Infrastructure as Code, leveraging tools such as Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, etc.
Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction of a team of platform engineering talent across multiple systems
Expert knowledge of cloud and runtime best practices with experience building backend platforms to support complex software engineering products
Experience in observability and resilience at runtime inclusive of APM, RUM, Logging, Circuit-Breaker patterns as well as release strategies like Blue/Green and Canary
Proven track record driving continuous improvements with cloud technology
Extensive experience with building and driving adoption of platform engineering best practices
Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architectures
Demonstrated ability to work with business partners, cross functional team members and coach and mentor experienced team members
Well versed in delivery mechanisms such as Agile
Preferred
Financial services or FinTech industry experience
Experience in a hybrid Cloud/Data Center environment supporting various multi-tier and microservice applications
Experience in driving runtime best practices for observability, tooling consolidation
Experience with SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS deployments in the Cloud
Experience developing and maintaining performance metrics and graphs
Depth in experience helping lead enterprise-wide Cloud transformations in AWS
Moderate experience in Azure, Oracle and Google Cloud platforms
Experience with Kubernetes cluster and orchestration platforms (EKS, Rancher)
Experience in automating builds on a Kubernetes platform
Experience with backup and data protection technologies
Understanding of Oracle database technologies (Oracle, GoldenGate and OEM)
Experience with AWS native database technologies like RDS and Aurora
Experience with alerting tools like PagerDuty
Understanding of Site-Reliability best practices such as Post-Mortems, ‘Golden-Signals’ and Production Readiness Reviews
Experience working with monitoring/trending software such as CloudWatch, ELK, Splunk, etc.
Advanced knowledge of DevOps processes and building ‘Golden-Path’s for Developers leveraging internal developer portals, automation, etc.
Benefits
401(K) match
Adoption assistance
Parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
Comprehensive medical/ dental/vision
Many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work
Company
Credit Acceptance
Credit Acceptance is an indirect finance company that helps eligible consumers restart financially.
1,001-5,000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.5B2024-09-19Post Ipo Debt· $100M
2024-03-28Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2024-02-16Post Ipo Debt· $100M
Leadership Team
Ken Booth
CEO
Jonathan Lum
Chief Operating Officer
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