Principal Software Engineer (Content Foundation)
SUB-DEPARTMENT
Engineering – Development
JOB TYPE
Full Time
LOCATION
Boston; Indianapolis; San Diego; Toronto; Remote United States
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Seismic, a rapidly growing Forbes Cloud 100 company, is the global leader in enablement, helping make sales teams better by becoming more productive and engaging with buyers in a compelling way. Seismic’s platform provides continuous guidance to improve behavior, content, and skills to win more deals and deliver better experiences. Nearly 2,000 organizations including IBM and American Express have made Seismic their enablement platform of choice. Seismic integrates with business-critical platforms including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google and Adobe. Seismic is headquartered in San Diego, with offices across North America, Europe, Australia and China.
Seismic is committed to building an inclusive workplace that ignites growth for our employees and creates a culture of belonging that allows all employees to be seen and valued for who they are. Learn more about DEI at Seismic here.
At the core of Seismic’s Sales Enablement Cloud is a powerful Content Platform which enables the processing, editing, automated augmentation and manipulation, consumption, interaction, and delivery of content for its users. The Content Foundation team designs and builds the services, shared components, and features and capabilities of that Content Platform and supports the integration and activation of them across the various applications and stakeholder teams leveraging them in the product.
As a Principal Software Engineer on our Content Foundation team, you will play a vital part in the evolution, strategy, and development of this robust platform. You will drive the design and development of the architectural vision of the content platform domain, write critical path code executing that vision, and act as its champion to shepherd and rally adoption across other engineering teams and integrating applications. You will work closely with our product leads, engineering leads, and members of the team to continue the development of a best-in-class content and video platforms; enabling new capabilities for our users and improving the performance and stability of a complex content processing backend. As part of a platform team, you will work to both enable features requested by applications as well as push for the integration of new platform-first capabilities across the entire Seismic Sales Enablement Cloud. This is an opportunity to work as an influential lead developer and make a difference at a mature, yet rapidly growing, tech company.
Who You Are:
- An experienced software engineer with a passion for building and innovating.
- Seen as a major contributor in the team problem-solving-process – you aren’t afraid to share your opinions in a low-ego manner or roll up your sleeves and write critical path code, take on the refactoring of a significant piece of code.
- Deep experience across multiple software projects, driving the end-to-end software development lifecycle of an architecturally complex system or product.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing robust architectural solutions in a microservices ecosystem, with a focus and desire to continuously improve and advance innovation
- Ability to think tactically as well as strategically, respecting what came before you and always thinking longer-term.
- Highly focused on operational excellence and software quality, with experience in CI/CD and best operational practices.
- Your technical skills are sought after as you develop in a pragmatic and efficient manner.
- You enjoy solving challenging problems, all while having a blast with equally passionate and talented team members.
What you will be doing:
- Architectural Design and Development: Design and drive the architectural future of Seismic’s content platform services, ensuring alignment with business goals and product roadmaps
- Software Engineering: Confidently develop new features by writing critical path code, resolving complex customer bugs, and supporting the success of deliverables
- Integration: Champion the integration of new content platform features and capabilities across the Seismic platform including content rendition, new video platform features, and content viewing and consumption tools
- Technical Leadership: Provide strong technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Champion Software Engineering Best Practices: Participate in and champion best practices for code reviews, monitoring and alerting, automated testing, bug/issue triage, performance optimization, and documentation.
- Collaboration: Work with technical product owners, architects, product managers, and other engineering teams and stakeholders to support the team’s execution of the design, develop, and delivery of new features in the content platform
What you bring to the team:
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 12+ years of experience (or 8+ years with advanced degree) in delivering quality software solutions and information retrieval systems. A proven track record of building products and leading technical efforts.
- Technical Expertise: Experience with C# and .NET, unit testing, object-oriented programming, and relational databases. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), event driven architectures with tools like Kafka, and feature management (Launch Darkly) are good to have. Front-end/full stack experience a plus.
- Cloud Expertise: Experience with cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Experience deploying containerized applications into Kubernetes is a plus.
- SaaS Knowledge: Extensive experience in SaaS application development and cloud technologies, with a deep understanding of modern machine learning technologies and operational infrastructure.
- Product Development: Experience in collaborating with product management and design, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions that drive successful delivery. Supported with personal focus and priority on operational excellence and software quality.
- Software Architecture Design: Demonstrated expertise in designing robust architectural solutions in a microservices ecosystem, with a focus and desire to continuously improve and advance innovation
- Leadership Skills: Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve their full potential. Open minded to other perspectives and persuasive to help align different teams and viewpoints (“strong opinions, loosely held.”)
- Strategic Mindset: Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with a strategic mindset and the ability to develop a strong point of view and drive vision forward.
- Fast-paced Environment: Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, preferably in a SaaS or technology-driven company. You enjoy solving challenging problems, all while having a blast with equally passionate and talented team members.
What we have for you:
- Take time to rest and recharge with generous time off, paid company holidays and end of year company shutdown.
- Medical, dental, vision, employer-paid life insurance and disability benefits
- Access to Health Savings Account (HSA) with $1,000 Single/$2,000 annual employer contribution
- Access to free paid telemedicine and wellness offers through medical plan
- Fertility and family planning benefits with financial assistance for adoption and surrogacy
- Paid parental leave and family caregiver leaves
- Annual professional development reimbursement
- Mental health support with 12 free counseling sessions for you and your family members
- 401k with annual employer match
- Equity program and performance-based bonuses
- Bring Your Own Device technology stipend
- Seismic Cares Program with charitable donation matching
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We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
Seismic’s annual base salary range for this position will vary based on applicant’s location, experience, job level, skills, and abilities as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The range listed below is the minimum to the maximum of our target hiring range.
This position is also eligible to participate in Seismic’s incentive plans in addition to base salary. The actual incentive amount will vary and will be subject to the terms and conditions set in the applicable incentive plan.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please contact us at [email protected].
Headquartered in San Diego and with employees across the globe, Seismic is the global leader in sales enablement, backed by firms such as Permira, Ameriprise Financial, EDBI, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and T. Rowe Price. Seismic also recently expanded its team and product portfolio with the acquisition of Percolate, Grapevine6, and Lessonly. Our board of directors is composed of several industry luminaries including John Thompson, former Chairman of the Board for Microsoft.
Seismic is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law.
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