Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

Mentors teams and leads the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. Identifies and removes performance/scalability bottlenecks for hyper‑scale workloads; defines scalability requirements with stakeholders; and designs elastic, high‑impact systems while advancing innovation in data plane platforms.

Qualifications

• with stakeholders; and designs elastic, high‑impact systems while advancing innovation in data plane platforms.
• Establishes KPIs and advanced telemetry; applies formal verification for complex features; and develops robust replication/synchronization strategies.
• Advises and leads resolution of complex production issues, sets operational readiness and SOP standards, and directs incident response and RCAs.
• Architects advanced security controls, drives remediation and compliance, and delivers enterprise‑level automation (IaC) and change strategies enabling safe, automated patching, updates, and rollbacks.
• to improve performance for hyper-scale systems.
• Lead collaboration with stakeholders to define system scalability
• ensuring the defined
• meet customer expectations.
• Leverage deep expertise to design high-impact, interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).
• Drive innovation in the use of data plane platforms.
• Evaluate whether systems are meeting nonfunctional scalability
• and proactively anticipate growing business needs within the business unit.

Responsibilities

• System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:
• Planning & Execution:
• Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to

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