What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Engineer position at PY DATA, INC.?
Job Details
Principal Engineer
2 days/week onsite in Sunnyvale, CA
6-12 months Contract to Hire
Must haves
- JAVA
- PYTHON
- AZURE OR Google Cloud Platform
- HADOOP
- SPARK
- KAFKA
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems
- Experience Managing Teams and Driving Initiatives- Principal Level
Job Description:
Our team is growing, and we are looking for a highly motivated Principal Software Engineer who is a self-starter and will play a critical role in the design and implementation of some of our core applications that impacts the largest retailer in the world! As part of our Marketing Technology team, you will be building highly scalable and reliable APIs, data-pipelines, services, and applications which will drive the next generation of CRM experiences. You ll independently handle high impact, critical software/systems monitoring issues, troubleshoot business and production issues. As a member of this fast-moving and highly entrepreneurial team, you ll be able to say that you work for the world s largest retailer and contribute to innovation and development to best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it.
About Team:
Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, we offer an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.
What you'll do:
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team of 10-20 engineers driving technical excellence through architectural guidance, code reviews, and strategic solution development for our next-generation AI driven CRM platform.
- Spearhead complex project discovery and implementation phases by collaborating closely with stakeholders and cross functional teams to:
- Translate business requirements into robust technical specifications
- Develop technical designs of complex data integrations
- Validate architectural concepts through robust proof-of-concepts as needed
- Develop high-performance APIs supporting batch or real-time customer data integrations
- Implement robust data security and privacy mechanisms for handling customer information
- Manage large-scale, cross-functional technology initiatives, maintaining clear communication and providing decisive leadership throughout project lifecycles
- Drive technical innovation, translating critical platform gaps into actionable, systemic improvements that enhance platform reliability and performance.
- Champion organizational values by promoting ethical standards, supporting continuous learning, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
What you'll bring:
- Proven track record leading cross-functional engineering teams (10-20 engineers)
- Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, databases, operating systems, etc.
- Expertise in Object Oriented & Functional Programming (Java, Python)
- Solid understanding of Design Patterns & Architectural Principles
- Hands on experience with cloud technologies (Azure or Google Cloud Platform) and distributed systems (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka)
- In depth knowledge of No-SQL and RDBMS technologies
- Strong expertise in designing and building high-performant scalable APIs & cloud native microservices
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with machine learning/AI integration preferred
