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In this role, you will define the long-term technical strategy, lead the most complex architectural initiatives, and represent Acceldata in the global open-source and distributed systems community. You will work directly with engineering leadership and executives to shape product direction while driving innovation across the organization.\nWHY JOIN US?\nAs a Principal Engineer at Acceldata, you will be at the forefront of shaping the future of enterprise data platforms, defining the technical vision for systems that power mission-critical workloads across the world's largest organizations. Your decisions will directly influence not only our platform but also the broader data ecosystem through open-source contributions and industry leadership.\nYou'll work alongside Apache members, committers, and industry veterans who are passionate about solving the hardest problems in distributed computing. 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establish best practices that elevate the entire engineering organization.\n\nMentor Staff Engineers and Senior Engineers; develop technical leadership capabilities across the organization.\n\nLead resolution of the most challenging technical problems spanning architecture, performance, scalability, and reliability.\n\nEngage with strategic customers and partners on complex technical discussions; translate customer needs into platform capabilities.\n\nDrive alignment across engineering, product, and operations on technical decisions with broad organizational impact.\n\nWork across diverse environments: Bare Metals, VM, Kubernetes, multi-cloud, and hybrid architectures at enterprise scale.\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n15+ years of hands-on software development experience with at least 8 years focused on distributed systems, big data platforms, or data infrastructure.\n\nProven track record of leading large-scale technical initiatives from conception to production across multiple teams.\n\nExpert-level proficiency in Java or Scala; 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