Principal Software Engineer joining Brinqa’s Data Plane team to develop scalable components. Designing solutions for high-volume data ingestion and analytics while supporting multi-cloud environments.
Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable, performant data plane components supporting high-volume ingestion and analytics workloads.
Contribute to the evolution of the data plane architecture as system requirements expand.
Evaluate and justify design trade-offs across distributed systems, data storage, and compute layers.
Influence technical decisions that impact multiple teams and platform components.
Ensure solutions meet enterprise-grade performance, reliability, and scalability expectations.
Develop systems that handle large-scale ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and persistence.
Support both real-time and batch data processing workflows.
Design for multi-cloud extensibility (GCP primary; AWS and Azure initiatives emerging).
Contribute to distributed database and storage strategy.
Use AI-assisted development tools in a disciplined way.
Requirements
7+ years of professional software development experience.
Proven experience building enterprise SaaS systems.
Significant experience working on distributed systems, data-intensive platforms, or enterprise IT systems management applications.
Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously and define technical direction with limited guidance.
Experience working across the full stack or deep expertise in backend and data systems architecture.
Professional proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, or Typescript.
Experience deploying and operating systems in GCP.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to justify architectural decisions clearly.
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