Senior Software Engineer (C/C++, DS, Algo)

Job Number: 34445

Position Title: Senior Software Engineer

External Description

Our Team

The Core Technology Group (CTG) is the innovation hub within Informatica that is responsible for delivering an extensible, reliable and scalable platform that provides the solid foundation for all other Informatica products. Specifically, our team focuses on building a high-performance and scalable Data Engine that can scale on multi-processor environments as well as on a cluster of nodes. The engine is capable of handling batch, request/response, and real-time workloads to deliver data for applications.

Your Opportunity

The Data Engine has been a key constituent of Informatica’s platform and serves multiple products such as Data Services, Data Quality, and Profiling. Informatica products rely on the Data Engine to fulfill the vision of a Virtual Data Machine which can execute data integration jobs either natively or across execution environments. You will be a key contributor to Informatica’s PowerCenter platform and how it handles the volume, velocity, and variety of structured and unstructured data.

The position is suited for highly motivated and energetic individuals with a desire to work on product development. You will work on delivering new products/product features in an environment that spans all flavors of Unix/Windows operating systems. You will work across multiple product lines and deliver solutions that benefit customers with consistent functionality across multiple products.

Our Ideal Candidate

We are looking to hire an engineer who has worked on developing large-scale data management or database products. One who has advanced problem-solving skills and technical aptitudes that will allow one to adapt to new circumstances and learn quickly when facing new problems and challenges. One who can communicate effectively with geographically separated team members and drive problems to solutions. You relish the opportunity to work on building optimizations that improve data processing performance across different use cases that include batch, request/response, and real-time systems.

Your Responsibilities

As an integral part of the Core Technology Group R&D team, you will be responsible for the following –
• Facilitating the collaboration and engagement between senior members of the team to ensure the sound design and implementation of key functionality areas for the product
• Write high-quality code using your in-depth knowledge of C++.
• Incubating and designing the next-generation platform for complex heterogeneous systems and applications involving cutting-edge technologies.
• Working closely with architects and developers and QA engineers to discuss and evangelize features
• Collaborating with geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams in an Agile environment
• Participating in internal/cross-team meetings, scoping, decision making, and technical documentation
• Mentoring junior engineers on technical, architectural, design, and related issues
• Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions
• Ensures high quality of all development work; follows development process without guidance, but with reviews.
• Is attentive to detail and accuracy is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels