Principal Java Engineer (GCP)
RackspacePosted 3/25/2025
Principal Java Engineer (GCP)
Rackspace
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Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Java Engineer to join our dynamic team in Canada. The ideal candidate will have a background in distributed systems, multithreading, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role involves working remotely, requiring excellent communication skills and the ability to solve complex problems independently and creatively. As a Principal Java Engineer, you will develop scalable and innovative Java code for content aggregation and information indexing, retrieval, processing, and ranking. You will collaborate with team members and stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of technical requirements and project goals. We value curiosity, ownership, and a drive to improve, and offer flexible remote work options, $4,000/year travel stipends, and equity in a fast-growing company. If you are a seasoned founder or an early tinkerer with AI, we will shape your role around your strengths.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Develop scalable and innovative robust Java code for content aggregation as well as for information indexing, retrieval, processing, and ranking.
- Build, enhance, optimize, and deploy tools, workflows, systems to process textual data for extraction of relevant information.
- Collaborate with team members and stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of technical requirements and project goals.
- Write detailed design documents, develop comprehensive automated tests, and coordinate automated deployments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field of study. Master’s degree is preferred.
- Prefer - Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification or other Google Cloud Professional level certification.
- Minimum of 10+ years developing applications in core Java.
- In-depth knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and systems.
- E2E software development lifecycle experience, including building and maintaining production grade software.
- Excellent verbal and writing communication skills with the English language.
- Operability experience (logging, monitoring, alerting, debugging).
- Prefer - Experience with Cassandra or Spanner.
- Prefer - Containerization knowledge (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Prefer - Experience with DevOps and infrastructure as code (terraform, CI/CD, build tools – maven/gradle.
