Principal Backend Engineer

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