Principal Engineer – Visualization Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain sophisticated data processing and streaming service modules.

• Utilize algorithms, performance analysis, and profiling techniques to enhance performance and minimize memory usage.

• Oversee the complete technical delivery process, from requirements gathering and implementation decisions to testing, deployment, and production support.

• Create and manage AWS services across various regions utilizing ECS/EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, ElastiCache/Redis, Lambda, and CloudFront.

• Analyze performance, concurrency, and reliability challenges in production, identify root causes, and implement sustainable solutions.

• Engage in architecture and technical design discussions with architects and rendering teams, assessing technical options and trade-offs.

• Implement solutions that conform to established architectural guidelines.

• Enhance test coverage, observability, deployment automation, and overall code quality.

• Participate in code review processes.

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity, automation, and delivery quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• A minimum of 7 years of hands-on professional software development experience in building, delivering, and operating backend services in production.

• Strong professional proficiency in Java, including object-oriented programming, concurrency, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.

• Practical experience with AWS infrastructure, specifically Amazon ECS Fargate and EC2.

• Solid understanding of DevOps principles, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and deployment across various environments.

• Comprehensive knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and mathematics, with the capability to analyze computational complexity, memory usage, and performance compromises.

• Ability to independently manage technically intricate deliveries, from component design to implementation and production operations.

• Experience in building and troubleshooting high-traffic distributed systems.

• Familiarity with REST APIs or WebSockets and data formats like JSON or Protobuf.

• Knowledge of observability principles, including logs, metrics, and tracing.

• Openness to utilizing AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity and software quality.

• Experience with Rust, particularly in creating high-performance native components and data processing solutions.

• Understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines like Jenkins or Harness.

• Systems-level experience with memory-mapped files, columnar storage, and database engines such as Parquet and DuckDB.

• Experience with 3D model data, geometry, mesh processing, point clouds, levels of detail, compression, or streaming pipelines.

• Knowledge of CDNs, global data distribution, containerization, and orchestration using technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.

• Experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.

• Understanding of network protocols such as HTTP/2 and WebSockets and their effects on streaming performance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from home / remote work.

• Permanent employment under Brazilian CLT labor regulations.