Rocket
Senior Principal Software Engineer
United States · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$125k-$168kDetected 11 days ago
PythonJavaGoCI/CDDevOpsMachine LearningCybersecurityLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
- Job Description Summary: The Infrastructure Modernization business unit is seeking a Senior Principal Product Engineer to serve as a visionary and hands-on technical leader for our Workload Automation solutions.
- The Infrastructure Modernization business unit is seeking a Senior Principal Product Engineer to serve as a visionary and hands-on technical leader for our Workload Automation solutions.
Responsibilities
- Embedding generative and predictive AI to enhance predictable operational outcomes, build workflow processes, and effectively integrate automation into enterprises.
- Architecting scalable, resilient automation platforms that support dynamic workloads
- Developing modern, secure APIs to improve integration with enterprise batch, DevOps, business process workflow ecosystems and observability platforms.
- Create and maintain the automation solution architecture that demonstrates key capabilities and value that customers require today and may well require tomorrow
- Build vs. Buy recommendations
- Lead and advise on technical debt assessment and resolution
- Explore and advocate for automation integration opportunities across Rocket and our Partner ecosystems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering/technical product experience, including at least 5 years in a principal or senior technical leadership role.
- Deep knowledge of automation technologies, workload orchestration, and DevOps practices.
- Strong proficiency in z Assembler (HLASM), system diagnostics, and the z/OS architecture as well as modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, or similar) and API design.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines as deployed to support modern mainframe software product development
- Familiarity with observability platforms, security best practices, and performance optimization.
- Experience acting as a player-coach, mentoring global engineering teams while contributing technically.
- Expertise in enterprise workload automation, batch processing, and integration with business process workflows.
- Ability to work in a global, distributed development environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
Compensation
- Annual salary range for this position is between $124,500.00 - $168,075.00 gross before taxes.
Benefits
- Direct requirements and backlog maintenance to ensure alignment with key vision and product direction.
- Evaluates and recommend key function and value streams necessary to address future vision-based use cases that will allow us to achieve:
- Unlimited Vacation Time as well as paid holidays and sick time
- Health and Wellness coverage options for Rocketeers and dependents
- Life and disability coverage
- Fidelity 401(k) and Roth Retirement Savings with matching contributions
- Monthly student debt benefit program
- Tuition Reimbursement and Certificate Reimbursement Program opportunities
Visa & Work Authorization
- is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status
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