Job Summary:
Pierce Manufacturing, an Oshkosh Company, builds trucks that protect people and communities around the world. They are seeking a Chief Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical evolution of their Azure-based IoT Cloud platform, focusing on developing scalable and reliable cloud solutions for various markets.
Responsibilities:
• Technical Leadership - Lead the architecture for connected vehicle Azure cloud platform, driving design decisions that ensure scalability, reliability, security, performance, built in quality and cost efficiency across backend, data, web portal, and mobile app.
• Hands-On Engineering - Lead by example through hands-on development of cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven systems, and data platforms while providing technical guidance to the team.
• Engineering Excellence - Establish architecture standards, coding practices, design patterns to ensure high-quality, maintainable solutions. Mentor engineers and cultivate a culture of continuous learning.
• Cross functional Collaboration - Collaborate with embedded engineers and product owner, remove technical roadblocks and help team successfully deliver sprint commitments.
• Cloud Platform Optimization – Drive continuous improvements in performance, security and cost optimization.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications.
• Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar programming language.
• Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid Namespace, Event Hub Namespace, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Communication Service, Azure Service Bus.
• Experience designing cloud data stores ADX, SQL, time-series data, and related data services such as CosmosDB and Redis.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns and real-time data processing.
Preferred:
• Experience building connected vehicle, automotive, industrial IoT or telematics platforms.
• Experience with managing and optimizing Azure cloud cost.
• Experience deploying containerized services (Docker, Azure Container Apps), CI/CD and infrastructure as code such as GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise.
• Experience designing secure, observable cloud services using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and cloud security best practices.
• Strong collaboration, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Proven ability to thrive in a startup like culture, lead through ambiguity, mentor engineers and embrace technical challenges.
Company:
Pierce Manufacturing is an Appleton, Wisconsin based manufacturer of custom fire and rescue apparatus. It is a sub-organization of Frontline Communications. Founded in 1913, the company is headquartered in Appleton, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.