We are seeking an experienced Principal Cloud Hosted Services Engineer who is at home developing complex multi-tier software applications and collaborating with cross-functional international teams to drive the technical strategy for our cloud infrastructure. As a Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud-based hosted services that are critical to our organization's success.

### Responsibilities

Work with product owners to develop the product vision and roadmap
Provide all of the product teams with technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance
Document and diagram proposed solutions, and ensure documentation and diagrams remain current for all deployments.
Advise end-to-end development of new features from concept through testing and deployment
Mentor others in the writing of clean, well-documented, testable OOP code following KISS/SOLID principles
Mentor others in how to develop cloud-native applications
Advocate for non-functional requirements like performance, versioning, deployability, configurability, observability, scalability, security, etc.
Meticulous attention to detail and high quality of work
Build up and maintain our DevOps/CI environment through research, implementation and monitoring
Create alerts and data mine logs and metrics for issues in cloud hosted services and the client applications that call to the services
Ability to design and architect service level componentry
Spike testing and rapid prototyping

### Required Qualifications

Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent knowledge in designing and developing complex, multi-tier, cloud-native software applications
Advanced knowledge in architecting cloud solutions in GCP or AWS (we are migrating from AWS to GCP)
Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes (EKS and/or GKE)
Advanced experience with automating the provisioning of cloud resources using infrastructure as code (we use Terraform)
Experience with CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI (we use TeamCity and GitHub Actions)
Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as DataDog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, and Kibana (we use DataDog and are migrating to Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana for monitoring and ELK stack for logs)
Experience with a high-level language like C#, Java, JavaScript, or Golang (we use C#, C++, JavaScript, and Python)
Creating and consuming RESTful web services and experience with 3rd party APIs
Well-versed in optimizing database queries to NoSQL databases (we use MongoDB)
Good understanding of design patterns
Experience leveraging LLMs and operating Agents to assist with tasks and development

### Nice to Haves

Experience with big data, stream processing and machine learning algorithms
Experience with geospatial applications & databases
Working in an agile environment (we use a mix of Scrum and Kanban)
Experience or knowledge of dependency injection
Experience with real-time, multiplayer services
Google Cloud Certification
Experience with Kubernetes-adjacent tooling like Helm, Kustomize, and ArgoCD
Understanding of effective unit testing and experience with Visual Studio Tests or NUnit
Experience creating mock objects using Moq, NSubstitute or other mocking framework

Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.

Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits.

We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.

Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:

Mission: ISS

Disney Pixar Coco VR

Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab

The Lion King - Virtual Production

Elixir

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process - for example, to transcribe interviews and generate summaries. These tools are not used to review applications or analyse resumes, and they do not replace human judgement. All hiring decisions are made by people. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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