Principal Software Engineer

What you will accomplish

• Set architectural direction for the broader organization and help evolve systems toward it
• Lead TCGplayer in the migration from a monolithic architecture to domain-driven microservice architecture
• Develop code that meets requirements and aligns with standard processes, and conduct code reviews to provide expert guidance and ensure code is of the highest quality
• Create clear, comprehensive documentation and diagrams to further understanding and drive action
• Develop thorough technical requirements based on business needs via collaboration with product and engineering counterparts
• Use deep technical domain knowledge of company systems and applications, which could cover applications, services, systems, or frameworks
• Participate in the Principal’s Guild to set technical direction, design patterns, and general standard processes across the Technology organization
• Demonstrate a high level of initiative and attention to detail during daily operations
• Provide support for mission-critical applications
• Inspire peers with high-quality, hands-on technical contributions

• A relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 12 years of relevant industry or academic master's degree or equivalent experience relevant master's degree and nine years of relevant industry or academic experience, or 16 years of practical experience
• 8+ years of object-oriented software development experience, ideally C# and .NET Core
• Significant experience in high volume production systems design with consideration for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, fault tolerance, and security
• Experience designing and developing microservices in an AWS cloud-based architecture
• Hands on experience with RDBMS technologies (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL stores (Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
• 5 or more years of event/stream processing mechanisms, specifically Kafka but also AWS SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, or AzureBus
• 5 or more years of experience with APM (Application Process Monitoring) experience - we work with Scalyr/DataSet for logs and New Relic for dashboards&alerting