Principal Software Engineer (Remote) - NASA

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Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical major, such as engineering or computer science, and 10 years of experience working in Cloud computing.
• Expertise using JavaScript and/or TypeScript to develop performant, asynchronous business logic.
• Expertise using Amazon Web Services (AWS) relational and big data services, including RDS and DynamoDB.
• Advanced Knowledge of relationship databases and SQL.
• Experience using Node.js to develop cloud-based solutions.
• Experience authoring tests and developing testing strategies using an automated testing framework.
• Experience developing solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute, serverless, and storage services such as EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, and S3.
• Experience working in Lean Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Expert or mastery level knowledge of work area, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• Deep knowledge of project management specifically the Agile delivery methodology.

Responsibilities:

• Expanding and optimizing data flows.
• Translating user requirements into clear, performant, well-tested code.
• Reviewing team code contributions and mentoring less experienced developers.
• Assisting team members and external users with technical questions/concerns via pair programming, asynchronous communication, or a mix.
• Providing a thoughtful, meaningful contribution to architecture and other technical conversations.
• Architecting database and data repository solutions to serve as a robust persistence layer for real-time and batch-oriented analytic processing.
• Designing, building, automating, deploying, and supporting scalable data pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading data into data warehouse solutions.
• Analyzing complex datasets, detecting and visualizing trends and patterns, developing conclusions, and providing recommendations.