Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Mentors teams and leads the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. Identifies and removes performance/scalability bottlenecks for hyper‑scale workloads; defines scalability requirements with stakeholders; and designs elastic, high‑impact systems while advancing innovation in data plane platforms. Engineers and oversees fault‑tolerant, in‑service‑upgradable designs; optimizes resilience mechanisms (load‑shedding, throttling, rate‑limiting); and sets SLO‑aligned durability and availability standards across dependent services. Establishes KPIs and advanced telemetry; applies formal verification for complex features; and develops robust replication/synchronization strategies. Advises and leads resolution of complex production issues, sets operational readiness and SOP standards, and directs incident response and RCAs. Architects advanced security controls, drives remediation and compliance, and delivers enterprise‑level automation (IaC) and change strategies enabling safe, automated patching, updates, and rollbacks.

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Prototype, design and implement a new trusted infrastructure. Define and implement security solutions for new and challenging problems. Design an build security and network mechanisms. Define security and network configuration and implementation best practices. Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools and networks. Specify, design and implement changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs. Provide technical leadership to other software developers.