Principal Software Engineer

Description:

Role Responsibilities:

You will be part of the StoreFront on-premises team whose mission is to modernise and optimise one of the most used web applications in the market (83 million monthly active users). As a Principal software engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building our CI strategy and test automation infrastructure.

• Design and implement build systems and test infrastructure that will support a CI model.

• Identify and address patterns in infrastructure and applications that can be solved with a common solution.

• Contribute towards test and environment automation strategy.

• Work with principal engineers in other teams to help drive our modernisation strategy.

• Improve the security, availability and performance of the systems you build while managing cost.

• Build automation using industry tools (like Jenkins, Ansible, TeamCity, etc) to enable the delivery of quality builds.

• Participate as an active member of a product development scrum team, taking part in planning and daily standups.

• Participate in on-call escalations when needed.

Requirements:

• Have extensive experience with on-prem builds, testing, integration and configuration management patterns and anti-patterns.

• Comprehensive knowledge of building and maintaining systems used for CI and test automation.

• You are an expert in writing and maintaining build pipelines using common industry patterns.

• You are an expert in managing deployments and infrastructure with Infrastructure as code and configuration management.

• You are highly skilled in writing complex scripts, tools, or applications in languages such as PowerShell, C#, Python, JavaScript, etc.

• Experience with Windows as an OS, and understanding of building and running applications on Windows.

• You have comprehensive knowledge of logging, monitoring and tracing, and experience with applying these in production systems.