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Boston MA, Remote - USA
Job Description:
Our suite of products test, evaluate, and define a development path to online e-learning, and assist students in achieving their goals. We are expanding and scaling our assessment platform to enable students and tech leaders to measure readiness, and define learning in new ways.
We are questioning and constantly improving on ways to evaluate how much we learn after a session, embedded in achievement programs customized for our strategic partnerships, with the ultimate goal to bring our new assessment components into the general Pluralsight learning experience.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will partner with the software engineers of one of the Assessment teams to develop exciting new technical solutions to deeply sophisticated problems involving architecture, strategy, teamwork, and how that information can be applied to make our product suite better. Along with other specialists, you will develop and mentor teams to powerfully move forward the development, application architecture, and strategy of systems critical to our future development and growth.
Who you're committed to being:

• You love solving sophisticated architectural, system, and teamwork problems that tend to involve more than just a single codebase and you love collaborating with other groups to create cross-team solutions.
• You deeply value those around you and the work they produce and have valuable engineering leadership which is afraid to provide opportunities to let others lead and make decisions.
• You love finding that ideal solutions that balance the technical requirements of the system with strategic solutions needed. Delivering to customers energizes you and your drive inspires those around you.
• You identify as a real-time data stream "master" and have a strong desire to see real-time processing of data create new feature rich experiences for our customers.
• You love working across multiple technologies and learning about new ways industry peers may be improving effective practices.
• You love to collaborate and find solutions with teammates rather than telling them what to do.

What you'll own:

• Enjoy the development and stewardship of the bounded context and systems owned by your team, while developing a deep knowledge of how your systems align with other systems and Pluralsight's architecture.
• Research and identify better ways to address problems including the identification and use of industry evolution, improving application architecture and improving ways of working.
• Working together with other leaders and Product Managers in your area of the business to discover, plan and strategize and prioritize around the most impactful work to be done

Tech stack: Our basic tech stack includes Node.js, Express, React, and Postgres. Our analytics codebase has a Python backend and uses Airflow. We deploy data streaming solutions based on Kafka-related technologies and tools.
Our current focus is on scaling our architecture to enable embedding of assessments in multiple platform experiences, while handling large volumes of real-time transactional data to keep the experience performant.
Experience you'll need:

• A proven background as a high-proficiency, senior engineer.
• A broad understanding of many technologies and how they could best be used at Pluralsight. You are aware of industry trends and how they might be used to create simple solutions for sophisticated problems.
• A proven commitment and desire toward Pluralsight's values and engineering practices in the way you work and engage with others.
• A proven track record exercising independent judgment in choosing methods, techniques, and approaches for obtaining optimal results.
• An understand and ability to navigate sophisticated issues around application performance, reliability, scalability, and security.
• A proven leadership ability that inspires others and lead teams to success.
• A confirmed history as a strong collaborator, trusted teammate, and know how to resolve interpersonal issues.
• A shown success using real time data streaming technologies and the processing and aggregation of data sourced from real-time streams.

Working at Pluralsight
At Pluralsight, we believe our people should have the opportunity to create progress through technology. That everyone should have access to the skills of tomorrow. That technology can make the world a better place. Through the work we do every day, we empower the people who power our world.
And we don't let fear, egos or drama distract us from our mission.
We're adults, and we treat each other that way. We have the autonomy to do our jobs, we value transparency and trust in each other to do the right thing. We thrive in an environment with creativity around every corner, challenges that keep us on our toes, and peers who inspire us to be the best we can be. We bring different viewpoints, backgrounds and experiences, and united by our mission to balance technology skills, we are one.
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