Principal Engineer-Backend

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

We are looking for a talented engineer well versed in software development, services-oriented architecture, microservices, cloud technologies, configuration management and continuous integration.

• Passionate about learning new technologies and creating innovative solutions
• Effectively prioritize work and encourage best practices in others.
• Evaluate and implement technologies that improve efficiency, performance and reliability
• Develop and deliver creative solutions to deliver enhancements to existing system and tackle new challenges both as an individual contributor and as a member of an agile scrum team
• Analyze, design, implement and validate software designs and integration workflows
• Collaborate with other engineers to develop best practices and software development strategies for existing and new services
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of software development experience.
• Programming language experience (e.g., .NET, React, Angular JS, Javascript).
• Experience with REST API design and implementation.
• Knowledge of micro-services principles and best practices.
• Developed and Deployed Cloud Native Applications for Container environments.
• Containers (Docker, Kubernetes and/or similar). Worked on migration and deployment of services to K8s on Openshift
• Experienced in CI/CD process.
  
  

• Masters degree in Computer Science or a related field or 12+ years of experience in software development cycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience communicating complicated concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience/familiarity with eSIM/GSMA specifications
• Experience with: Linux (RedHat, Linux, Mac, Windows).
• One or more Web and Application Server technologies (e.g. Apache, Springboot).
• One or more scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl).
• Networking protocols such as HTTP, SSH, DNS and TCP/IP.
• Knowledge of Distributed Systems/Cloud Computing.
• Experience managing multiple applications and services as part of a large and diverse platform.
• Experience with building reliable systems at scale.
• Working knowledge of SQLServer and NoSQL based solutions such as Couchbase/Cassandra/ElasticSearch