Principal Software Engineer - Data Platform

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Job description, low-code style:
 

As the #1 low-code application development platform, OutSystems provides customers with everything they need to build apps incredibly fast. So, let us cut to the chase: We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to be based in Bengaluru, India.

About This Role

The team is building our cloud-native data pipeline that ingests massive amounts of distributed data from our Cloud services. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds to power observability and analytical applications used by internal OutSystems employees and our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with Product Engineering teams to turn internal and product requirements into sustainable solutions that enable efficient software engineering and system visibility for our clients

• Lead the end-to-end design and development of scalable data platforms and pipelines for ingesting, processing, and storing large-scale data.

• Develop tools and infrastructure to collect, distribute, and store logs, traces, metrics, and more from all OutSystems services and products while ensuring that your solutions are optimized for ease of use, reusability, and scalability

• Stay up-to-date on technologies relevant to the role, identifying trends and opportunities to ensure OutSystems continues to use the best possible techniques and tools to create software

• Ensure implementations and development activities always lead towards enriching knowledge base documentation, including capturing design details, usage, maintenance, configuration, and deployment notes;

• Develop architectural patterns and best practices that align with business and technical goals, focusing on cost efficiency and scalability.

• Work with cross-functional development teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or similar. If you do not have one but you have equivalent real-world experience (and can show it), we still want to hear

• 12 or more years of software engineering experience

• Deep knowledge of and demonstrated expertise in designing and building a highly scalable data platform for ingesting, processing, storing, and forwarding large amounts of data

• Good experience in building real-time streaming frameworks using Kafka Streams, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, etc.

• Deep understanding of developing cloud-native microservices in Kubernetes 

• Deep knowledge of and experience scaling one or more of the popular data streaming and processing technologies

• Knowledge of designing and building data lakes that can be used to power analytics, artificial intelligence, and business intelligence reports

• Knowledge of and experience designing and developing high throughput APIs

• Knowledge and hands-on experience with modern infrastructure practices, like Infrastructure as Code, immutable infrastructure, service-oriented architectures, etc.

• Deep knowledge and expertise with code-based configuration, load-balancing, auto-scaling, monitoring, networking, and problem-solving in a cloud environment

• Technical leadership and expertise to provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations.

• Deep experience working with modern object-oriented programming languages (Java, Scala,  Python, C#, Go, Node)

• Experience working with application frameworks such as Spring Boot

• Good communication skills (Fluency in English, written and spoken)

 The Longer Story:
 

OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most.We are looking for talented and motivated people to join us in helping companies solve some of their most strategic business challenges, from modernizing their workplace processes to transforming their employee and customer experiences. As a member of the OutSystems global team, you will help build, deliver, manage, and evolve the software that is a low-code market leader and preferred by professional developers around the world.

OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 800,000 developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 500 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and of course has a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.

Working at OutSystems
 

Our goal is to ensure that OutSystems is a place for bright, happy, and motivated people who share a common purpose and take pride in excellent work towards our vision. Our culture is focused on building agility at scale, which allows us to operate with a high drive in a competitive market. At OutSystems, we operate like a startup at scale, where teams act as coordinated "startups" - a true Federation of Teams Culture. Our attributes define the core behaviors 

that fuel our innovation and foster agility at scale. We encourage our team members to collaborate, focus on results, act quickly, understand our business and reinvent themselves.

What do we have to offer you? 

• A company that continues to grow, change and innovate, and gives our teams the space to be proactive and creative. 

• Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Vertical career progression is an obvious possibility, but we also offer the possibility for lateral moves, joining different teams, and mastering specific skills. 

• Work colleagues that are as smart, hardworking and driven as you – and a team that is global. 

• Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it’s why our company exists.

• We “Ask Why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.
   

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we’d love to hear from you!

OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we’d love to hear from you!

Join us in disrupting the status quo of the low-code market, we give you the power to "Ask Why", you give our customers the power to innovate through software!