Principal Backend Engineer

Acceldata is hiring Principal Backend Engineer job in Bengaluru (Bangalore) | Cutshort

Principal Backend Engineer
Principal Backend Engineer

10
\- 14 yrs
₹30L - ₹65L / yr (ESOP available)
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Skills
Java
J2EE
Spring Boot
Hibernate (Java)
Big Data
Acceldata is creating the Data observability space. We make it possible for data-driven enterprises to effectively monitor, discover, and validate Data pipelines at Petabyte scale. Our customers include a Fortune 500 company, one of Asia's largest telecom companies, and a unicorn fintech startup. We are lean, hungry, customer-obsessed, and growing fast. Our Engineering team values productivity, integrity, and pragmatism. We provide a flexible, remote-friendly work environment.
As a principal engineer, you will own the core Acceldata platform data engine. We’re looking for people with a strong background or inclination towards data engineering; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces and have a solid understanding of modern Data management systems

You will:
– Be actively involved in strategic direction and product decisions.
– Architect and design new services and features
– Be the go-to person for debugging performance issues on the platform and customer environments
– Dive deep into open source data engines and work on optimizing their performance.
– Design, build, and maintain low latency APIs.
– Mentor and guide the engineering team on best practices and software architecture
– Work closely with our customers and sales teams on a regular basis to carve out new features and use cases
– Develop services that will be consumed by frontend and solution engineers.

You need:
– 12+ years of strong development experience in one or more general programming languages. JVM (Java, Scala, Kotlin) or Golang
– Strong Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem-solving.
– Strong distributed systems knowledge, and experience shipping enterprise software
– SQL mastery and overall experience working with Data storage and retrieval systems
– Organized, thorough, and detail-oriented
Good to have:
– Contribution to open-source projects.
– Background in enterprise software
– JVM performance tuning and debugging
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Founded
:
2018
Type
:
Product
Size
:
100-1000
Stage
:
Raised funding
About
Acceldata is the company that built the leading Multidimensional Data Observability Cloud. This cloud was designed to help data-driven organizations achieve agility in innovation, operational excellence, and enhanced returns on data investment. Embedded analytics and artificial intelligence technologies are becoming more reliant on contemporary organizations to fuel their business operations and choices.
The data observability technologies offered by Acceldata improve the performance of embedded artificial intelligence and analytics workloads by providing purpose-built monitoring and analytics. The first Data Observability Cloud is presently being developed by Acceldata for cloud data warehouses and hybrid data lakes. Acceldata makes it easy for businesses to expand their pipelines to meet the requirements of modern business, regardless of whether they are operating in a platform or cloud environment. Data Observability Cloud by Acceldata provides on-demand operational information to support analytics data workloads and embedded artificial intelligence.
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