Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pierce Manufacturing, part of Oshkosh Corporation, builds trucks that protect communities worldwide. They are seeking a Chief Principal Software Engineer - Cloud to lead the architecture of their Azure-based IoT platforms, providing technical leadership and hands-on engineering to develop scalable cloud solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture for connected vehicle Azure cloud platform, driving design decisions that ensure scalability, reliability, security, performance, built in quality and cost efficiency across backend, data, web portal, and mobile app
- Lead by example through hands-on development of cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven systems, and data platforms while providing technical guidance to the team
- Establish architecture standards, coding practices, design patterns to ensure high-quality, maintainable solutions
- Mentor engineers and cultivate a culture of continuous learning
- Collaborate with embedded engineers and product owner, remove technical roadblocks and help team successfully deliver sprint commitments
- Drive continuous improvements in performance, security and cost optimization
Skills
- Education - Bachelor's degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications
- Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar programming language
- Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid Namespace, Event Hub Namespace, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Communication Service, Azure Service Bus
- Experience designing cloud data stores ADX, SQL, time-series data, and related data services such as CosmosDB and Redis
- Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns and real-time data processing
- Experience building connected vehicle, automotive, industrial IoT or telematics platforms
- Experience with managing and optimizing Azure cloud cost
- Experience deploying containerized services (Docker, Azure Container Apps), CI/CD and infrastructure as code such as GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise
- Experience designing secure, observable cloud services using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and cloud security best practices
- Strong collaboration, problem-solving and communication skills
- Proven ability to thrive in a startup like culture, lead through ambiguity, mentor engineers and embrace technical challenges
Benefits
- Various opportunities to support team member growth and success
- Reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities
- Merit-based Equal Opportunity Employer
- Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant
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