Rackspace

Principal Java Engineer (GCP)

Job Description

Job Summary:  We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Java Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a background in distributed systems, multithreading, infrastructure as code via terraform, Cassandra or Spanner, with a solid understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role involves working in a remote environment, requiring excellent communication skills and the ability to solve complex problems independently and creatively. 

Work Location: Remote Canada from only the Ontario, British Columbia or Alberta Provinces.


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.

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