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BlackLine · 7 hours ago

Principal Engineer

Pleasanton, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$251K/yr - $314K/yr

10+ years exp

BlackLine is a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the financial close process. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will deliver high-quality releases by defining application architecture, developing backend services, and mentoring less experienced engineers.

Computer Software

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provide technical expertise and leadership in technology direction, road-mapping, architecture definition, design, development, and delivery of enterprise-class solutions while adhering to timelines, coding standards, requirements, and quality

Architect, design, develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, optimize, scale, perform the capacity planning, deploy, maintain, and improve software applications, driving the delivery of high-quality value and features to BlackLine's customers. Develop functional and technical specifications, and test plans

Develop and document functional and technical requirements

Work collaboratively across the company to design, communicate and further assist with adoption of best practices in architecture and implementation

Deliver robust architectural solutions for complex design problems

Implement, refine, and enforce software development techniques to ensure that delivered features meet software integration, performance, security, and maintainability expectations

Research, test, benchmark, and evaluate new tools and technologies, and recommend ways to implement them in product development. Identify and create solutions that are likely to contribute to the development of new company concepts while keeping in mind the business strategy, short- and long-term roadmap, and architectural considerations to support them in a highly scalable and easy extensible manner

Identify and create solutions that are likely to contribute to the development of new company concepts while keeping in mind the business strategy, short- and long-term roadmap, and architectural considerations to support them in a highly scalable and easy extensible manner

Actively participate in research, development, support, management, and other company initiatives designing solutions to optimally address current and future business requirements and infrastructure plans

Inspire a forward-thinking team of developers, acting as an agent of change and evangelist for a quality-first culture within the organization. Mentor and coach key technical staff and guide them to solutions on complex design issues

Establish strong relationships with company's leadership to ensure the use of technologies are well

Act as a conduit for questions and information flow when those outside of Engineering have ideas for new technology applications

Speak in terms relevant to audience, translating technical concepts into non-technical language and vice versa. Facilitate consensus building while striving for win/win scenarios and elicit value-add contributions from all team members in group settings

Maintain a strong sense of business value and return on investment in planning, design, and communication

Proactively identify issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or other areas of concern or opportunity and work to either directly affect change, or advocate for that change by working with peers and leadership to build consensus and act

Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including occasional off-hours support

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Cloud software developmentSaaS product deliveryApplication architectureMicroservices architectureProgramming languagesSQL databasesNoSQL databasesAgile methodologiesTechnical leadershipProblem-solvingCollaborationCommunication skillsMentoring

Required

Prior experience of building metadata driven application extensibility platforms to support custom fields, custom validations, rules, triggers and user exits

Strong expertise in using search engines like Elastic Search or similar

Prior experience using Rules Engine like Drools or similar

Experience in using SQL databases (Postgres, Sql Server or similar) and NoSQL databases (Redis, Mongodb, Cassandra or similar)

Handson experience in building and managing User Exit Frameworks

Prior experience of delivering SaaS in a public cloud (GCP, AWS or Azure)

BS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

10+ years of experience with software development in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C#, Java, C/C++

8+ years of hands-on experience in building Web Applications, SaaS products, and RESTful APIs

2+ years' experience in the Application, System, Solution or Data Architecture including strategic IT planning and integration

Strong expertise in translating business strategies into technical, strategic and execution plans (road- maps)

A solid computer science foundation including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns, with a proven track record of software design and architecture of complex systems

Experience in UI extensibility using configuration design and development

Experience in micro service architecture with exposure to Kubernetes

Experience as a technical influencer for highly scalable distributed system designs

Experience as a technical lead on significant development initiatives

Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Adaptable team player with strong collaboration skills and a focus on results and value delivery

Passion for engineering excellence through automation, unit testing, and process

Preferred

Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies, is preferred

Prior experience in building Business Application Extensibility Platform

Prior experience in API gateway implementation, preferably Apigee

Prior experience on Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, Federation, SSO (using Okta, Ping Federate or similar)

Benefits

Short-term and long-term incentive programs

Benefit and wellness plans

Company

BlackLine

Glassdoor3.3

Companies turn to BlackLine (Nasdaq: BL) to help solve their most complex finance and accounting challenges.

Founded in 2001

Woodland Hills, CA, US

1001-5000 employees

https://www.blackline.com

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