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Shutterfly · 5 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

Eden Prairie, MN

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$135K/yr - $191K/yr

Shutterfly is a company that helps people archive and share photos through its Snapfish brand. They are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and development of the Snapfish website, focusing on architectural efficiencies and new technology integrations across the full stack.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Collaborate with engineering leaders, product management, key stakeholders to introduce architectural simplifications and consolidation across multiple technology stacks and disparate systems

Stay on track with the latest technologies for the domain and apply the experience and knowledge towards architecture and product features

Analyze and articulate the current state of the technology and propose valued alternatives wherever required

Help define and implement the architectural roadmap and own key portions of the implementation

Explain the status & value of proposed design/solution that meet preset goals of quality, security and performance to stakeholders

Help guide and the activities of development teams

Qualification

Distributed computingAdvanced programmingMicroservicesCI/CD technologiesContainerization technologiesDatabase technologiesLeadership qualitiesCollaboration skills

Required

At an expert level in distributed computing and storage, including significant experience with the following: server systems, storage, I/O, networking, and systems software

At an expert level in advanced programming skills to build distributed storage and compute systems, backend services, microservices, and web technologies with the ability to switch between programming environments like Java, JavaScript, native programming as well as scripting languages such as Python/Terraform/Perl

Expertise in the following systems & technologies and how they fit together: http and native clients, DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, CDNs, application servers, databases, and caches

Expertise in building streaming applications using pub sub system, & search technologies

Proficient with ECS or other containerization technologies

Proficiency across a wide range of database technologies including relational, document oriented, column oriented and graph databases such Oracle, Mongo, Document DB

Expertise in CI/CD technologies such as Chef, Jenkins, Ansible

Benefits

Bonus incentive

Health benefits

401K program

Other employee perks

Company

Shutterfly

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Shutterfly is a photography company provides products and services to preserve their memories and sharing stories.

Founded in 1999

Redwood City, California, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.shutterflyinc.com

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