Principal Software Engineer

**What makes us Qlik?**

A Gartner® Magic Quadrant Leader for 15 years in a row, Qlik transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality and advanced AI/ML capabilities that lead to better decisions, faster.

We excel in integration and governance solutions that work with diverse data sources, and our real-time analytics uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities.

**The**Principal**Software**Engineer**

As part of Qlik's Data Integration portfolio, the Talend Management Console (TMC) is a key component of our cloud-based platform. It empowers customers to schedule, configure, and monitor data integration jobs across a variety of execution engines, supporting millions of workloads every day.

Join our innovative and cloud-first TMC team as a **Principal Software Engineer**, where you'll help design and develop robust backend services that enable seamless orchestration and observability for our customers’ data pipelines.

**What makes this role interesting?**

**Worldwide**diverse and**high**skilled**people**:Working with high level experts from all around the world on various technologies

**High Impact Work**: Play a key role in developing and maintaining a mission-critical product used in production by numerous customers, where stability, performance, and reliability are essential

**Mentorship & Best Practices**: Take a central role in the team by mentoring peers, promoting engineering best practices, and guiding technical decisions.

**Innovative Problem Solving**: Solve scalability and performance issues in large, complex data systems using creative and practical approaches.

**Diverse Technology Exposure**:Leverage a broad set of technologies to drive solutions for tough engineering problems and accelerate your professional growth.

**Here’s how you’ll be making an impact**:
**TMC product innovation**:Design the technical architectures sustaining Qlik's product innovation & requirements, implement, test, deploy and monitor once in production. Collaborate with Product Owners on work breakdowns and plans.

**TMC**s**ervices**e**nhancements**: Design, develop, test, and maintain services used to schedule and run millions of executions daily.

**Issue**s**r**esolution**: Collaborate with support engineers to analyze, identify, and resolve issues and bottlenecks.

**Quality**a**ssurance**: Ensure deliverables meet requirements, employing test-driven development practices, including a variety of tests (unit, integration, end-to-end tests).

**Implement robust monitoring**: Develop effective alerts, dashboards, playbooks, and runbooks to ensure swift issue identification and resolution.

**Communication and**c**ollaboration**: Communicate with engineering management and team leaders on task prioritization, scheduling, and coordination. Collaborate with team members on all aspects of the development process, including API and interface standards, user experience, architectural design, implementation, testing, and documentation.

**We’re looking for a teammate with**:

- Approximately 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development.
- Comfortable working within a large, complex organization.
- Strong sense of ownership and initiative, with proactive and effective communication skills.
- Proven experience mentoring team members and promoting best technical practices.
- Track record of designing and leading the architecture of large-scale systems.
- Skilled in diagnosing and resolving complex issues, particularly in distributed systems and database performance.
- Deep expertise in Java and the Spring ecosystem.
- Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or ActiveMQ.
- Proficient in working with databases like PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Solid understanding of API design principles.
- Able to work independently while collaborating effectively within a team.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships across functions.
- Fluent English communication skills, written and spoken.
- Familiar with containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Flux.
- Experience operating in high-availability environments (e.g., SLA 99.5%).
- Background in working with geographically distributed and international teams.

**More about Qlik and who we are**:
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What else do we offer?
- Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs
- Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness
- Flexible, diverse, and international work environment

Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage part