
Lead Software Engineer- Distributed Systems
InformaticaBase Salary
$173k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, debugging, testing, and operation of resilient distributed Edge Control Plane and Edge Intelligence services.
- Build and operate reliable, self-healing services that support global scale, traffic distribution, and optimized connectivity.
- Balance live-site management, feature delivery, and technical debt reduction across complex cloud systems.
- Resolve complex technical issues and drive improvements to system availability, resilience, performance, and operational excellence.
- Own and operate mission-critical infrastructure services, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications.
- Use telemetry, metrics, automation, and data-driven feedback to improve services and deliver functionality incrementally.
- Create, maintain, and share technical documentation for engineers and other team members.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience.
- Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and experience with at least one object-oriented language, preferably Java.
- Solid knowledge of database technologies, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.
- Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems and large complex cloud systems.
- Experience with public cloud platforms including GCP, AWS, Alibaba, and/or Azure.
- Experience with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet, or Mesos.
- Experience owning and operating multiple instances of mission-critical infrastructure services, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications.
- Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence and familiarity with Agile development and testing.
- Preferred experience with open source projects, SOAP/REST APIs, API design, network technologies, Spark, Kafka, Druid, and Jenkins CI/CD.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Salesforce provides accommodations during the application or recruiting process and uses AI tools to assist with resume assessment while retaining human hiring decisions.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com