Principal Software Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about developing high-performance platforms. To be successful in this role, you need effective communication and collaboration skills, a passion for learning and trying new things, and a strong foundational understanding of programming and computer science. As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.

Things you’ll be working on:

• Identify patterns that can help the teams scale, create proposals, and drive adoption of those patterns.
• Challenge current architectural choices while collaborating to solve problems in innovative ways.
• Drive best engineering practices to write well-constructed and easy-to-maintain code, defensive and robust tests.
• Lead through metrics - understand application performance and costs and push for better results.
• Work with Product Management to help translate business requirements into Technical solutions - drive the delivery of key projects across the various cross-functional teams.
• Lead the architecture group to inspire change across the organization as well as partner organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop software designs and specifications.
• Develops and writes code to meet design specifications.
• Test, document, and deploy code.
• Provide technical mentorship and code quality assurance.
• Support, maintain, and break-fix production products.
• Work with a team to design solutions to various interesting and challenging problems.
• Be a champion for engineering excellence.
• Become and stay an expert in current and emerging technologies and tools.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java services utilizing various database and messaging technologies.
• Strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages, and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.).
• Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Champion cross-team projects.
• Coach and mentor other specialists on the team to ensure that all software utilizes Hulu and industry best practices for data persistence and real-time streaming applications.