Principal Platform Engineer, Data Platform

Company: Anaplan
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

Anaplan, the Connected Planning pioneer, is changing the way the world's most respected companies do business. We believe in clear, open communication enabling teams to overcome obstacles and move forward together. We want you to feel that you belong to a team, you matter, and are able to be your authentic self. We all work together to deliver business value with the power of Connected Planning at every level within every organization, and alongside an ever-growing number of users, a rich partner ecosystem, and active community. At Anaplan, our values are key to everything we do. We call it #AnaplanLOVEAt Anaplan these words come to life by making employees feel empowered and inspired.Building a strong culture around company values is an ongoing journeythat will continue to be the core of our existence.Anaplan is looking for a PRINCIPAL PLATFORM ENGINEER to join our growing team in SAN FRANCISCO and contribute as a member of the Global Engineering organization located in San Francisco, Minneapolis, London and York, UK.As a Principal Platform Engineer, you'll be a hands-on developer who can go deep into full stack systems design, protocols, security, and programming/OS internals key technical leader. Anaplan is a business critical, tier-1 system that must be highly available with low latency, despite complexity and scale. You'll be designing and implementing new APIs to evolve the data platform to enable new markets and use cases for the Anaplan Platform. Additionally, the highly strategic nature of work team means high visibility and plenty of opportunities to grow and learn.For this role, we're looking for someone who thrives in a changing environment. Someone who is interested in developing a deep understanding of our system and excited to solve challenging problems at scale while delivering new capabilities to our rapidly growing number of customers. If you value writing sustainable, resilient code to ensure that our customers' experience is the very best it can be and you want to help cultivate an open, collaborative, inclusive, creative, authentic, tenacious culture, this is the place for you!This role is an immediate full-time position. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and seek unique problems that no one is solving in the tech space yet, keep reading.What You'll Be Doing* Analysis, design and implementation of multi-tenant platforms and applications.* Build robust, manageable, flexible and scalable production services.* Evaluate and select software components, frameworks, vendor solutions, and technologies in cloud computing.* Work closely with our production operations and security teams to ensure compliance with best practices and standards.* Write code that is high-quality, performant, sustainable and testable while holding yourself accountable for the quality of the code you produce.* Mentor and collaborate inside and outside the team. You enjoy working closely with others - helping them grow by sharing expertise and encouraging best practices.* Work in a hybrid cloud infrastructure, considering the implementation of functionality through several distributed components and services.* Work with our partners to translate product goals into impactful engineering plans.* Contribute intellectual property through patent generation.More About You* A thought leader in cloud computing and delivery of SaaS applications and platforms to enterprise business customers.* Experience designing and implementing cloud based storage solutions.* You are hands on and are actively engaged in both the design and implementation work.* Experience in technologies and solutions for load balancing, clustering, high availability, and failover* A strong background in encouraging a culture of continuous delivery and agile development.* A deep understanding of the value of testing to deliver high-quality code.* Expertise in Java and the JVM and are up to date on modern Java development.* Proficiency with the design, implementation, and deployment of scalable API services.* Worked extensively with containers and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.* Experience working in production with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.* Experience with building observability into services to track usage and health.* Experience working closely with product management and UX teams to deliver the best solution to the problem at hand.* Strong communication and collaboration skills - you are pragmatic and know how to build trust.* BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience* Preferably 15+ years in software with the majority as a hands on engineer* You have mentored engineering teams and are seen as a leader. You know your audience and are able to adjust when speaking to leadership, executives, or stakeholdersBonus Points* Experience with GraphQL* Experience with Kafka and streaming data* Experience with Parquet data formatWhat We Offer* A rewarding, progressive career with a company that values diversity, flexibility and understands the need for a good work/life balance.* Market-leading salaries combined with generous bonuses, equity and a range of comprehensive benefits.* Regular agile meetups, events and hackathons (both attending and hosting!)* Flexible working, catered lunches, a fully stocked kitchen and plenty of parties and events.* A range of sports, health and wellbeing initiatives.* 3 days of paid leave every year to help support the charity or cause of your choice.* Huge problems to solve -you will constantly be learning and pushing boundaries, working with some of the smartest people around!Our diversity and inclusion commitmentBuild your job in a place that thrives on diversity, inclusion and belonging. We believe in maintaining a hiring and working experience in which all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your true self to work every day!Our story Anaplan is a cloud-native enterprise SaaS company helping global enterprises orchestrate business performance. Our customers come first to create heroes, unlock potential & build trust and confidence. We challenge legacy thinking and software that isn't flexible for the modern organization. We have architected the only platform that will take the time from planning to decision down to zero.We're building a truly unique technology. From our calculation engine and in-memory data store, to apps and predictive analytics; amazing technology is being developed every day.We're addressing a $100B/year problem that all global businesses face. Our mission is to break the traditional business planning mold, currently performed through spreadsheets or legacy systems.Anaplan's Connected Planning platform is enabling customers to improve decision-making by turning response time into real time, to make better decisions to enhance your business. The platform helps you dynamically orchestrate performance enterprise-wide, and convert constant change to your environment.See what our global customers and partners have to say about Anaplan's platform is solving some of the most complex challenges in business. CEOs, analysts, and the press agree-Anaplan is changing the way the world does business. Learn about our history, see our recognitions and achievements, and take a look at what it's like to work at Anaplan. Get to know more about working at Anaplan by checking out our social channels.Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - YouTubeCan't find the perfect role for you? New opportunities are opening up daily: http://anaplan.com/CAREERSCOVID-19 UpdateProtecting the health and safety of our communities, including our employees and of those considering a career at Anaplan, is our highest priority. We continue to closely monitor the evolving situation and we appreciate your understanding and flexibility with any related changes to our interviewing process.

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