Principal Engineer - Internet Of Things

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

You will be a senior member of the Verizon IoT solutions and platform development team, focusing on design-driven development and front-end delivery. As a Principal Engineer-Internet Of Things, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of a highly scalable IOT developer platform and applications whose core tenants include an independent UI layer integrated via API with telemetry infrastructure using messaging queues (MQTT/Rabbit/Other lightweight M2M), data ingestion and streaming platforms like Kafka/Kinesis and horizontally scalable micro services that use a variety of data persistence (NoSql, Relational, In-memory).

All team members play a vital role in delivering high value and high quality solutions that meet business objectives, and delivering end-to-end performance and scale of complex video based analytic applications that can support millions of IoT devices in the field. The position is part of an agile, cross-functional team that delivers value to the business with high frequency. A continuous delivery / continuous integration (CICD) approach is followed to ensure tight integration and early detection of issues for quick delivery cycle-time.

• Design and develop well-architected and scalable end to end applications and development platform touchpoints for video analytics based applications and IoT telemetry for various verticals like Smart Cities, Industrial IoT, Utilities, and 5G/MEC.
• Understand the target domain personas and the user experience requirements. Design user experiences that are highly scalable and targeted for cloud deployment/Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Ensure applications meet the objectives of the business.
• Contribute to analysis and design of low latency Microservices APIs that will be consumed by a Cloud IOT platform as well as external developers/third party vendors.
• Design, review, and optimize data ingestion and transformation processes in streaming, relational databases, and/or NoSQL in cloud environments, to deliver the value of the data to customers.
• Conduct iterative application tuning and performance baselining.
• Participate in Agile development, daily scrum, and sprints.
• Develop high level and detail level designs with cross functional input. Work closely with product managers and other external stakeholders to ensure that the final solution will meet business objectives.
• Develop features with quality and integrated with continuous integration and delivery infrastructure.
• Implement and champion best practices in solution design and delivery to optimize business investments.

Where you'll be working:

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in IOT and/or Computer Vision domain.
• Experience designing and developing complex-domain applications and highly scalable ingestion and data processing applications.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Even better if you have:

• A Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Strong foundation in Scala/CSS/Java /JS/Go/HTML and other programming languages. Familiar with industry best practices and design patterns.
• Experience with designing and using horizontally scalable UI layer component systems in Typescript/React16+/JS/ESlint/API/micro services architecture.
• Experience of Kafka/Kinesis/Spark streaming platform to build API’s utilizing real-time data pipelines.
• Experience on database management systems and Query language.
• Experience with Messaging Systems and protocols (MQTT/CoAP/RabbitMQ).
• Debugging and monitoring experience of cloud applications using Graphite/Grafana, ELK, Google Prometheus, Datadog.
• Ability to work within an agile, scrum-based team that utilizes Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery processes.
• Ability to lead end of end development of major software features.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Verizon requires new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Verizon provides reasonable accommodations consistent with legal requirements (e.g., for medical or religious reasons).