Principal Cloud Engineer

Who we are 

Since 2022 Cork has been chosen as the Centre of Excellence for Fire Detection Connected Services. This is due to the success of innovative products built by the team in Cork. One of such projects is Xaap, a mobile and web-based building inspection reporting application that provides a single, centralised platform for tracking, maintaining, and reporting building system compliance. 

In 2018, facility managers and their teams have used the Xaap compliance reporting software to test nearly 84 million individual building devices, including fire alarms, extinguishers, security devices, sprinklers, and other systems across North America. Xaap has helped these customers identify more 1 million deficiencies within their building systems, uncovering many opportunities to improve building safety and compliance and save lives.

Now the next step in the journey is currently underway with some new projects and innovations built in Cork.

What you will do 

Reporting to the Director of Software Engineering based in Cork, as a Principal Software Engineer you will be a key member in the development, architecture, maintenance and technical direction of the Connected Services Cloud. You will be part of a growing cross functional team of Mobile, Web, Embedded software engineers, UI/UX engineers and product owners.

How you will do it 

• Full end to end ownership of SW product design and delivery from the whiteboard to continuous deployment

• Work closely with and across internal teams to bring a Quality First mentality and shifting testing left.

• Cultivate a positive attitude and willingness to take on new tasks as they arise.

• Participate in code reviews across multiple services and languages.

• Gather and define specifications and requirements based on technical needs. 

• Work independently and collaboratively with team members. 

• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance. 

• Help teams with root cause analysis of performance & scalability issues and contribute code to help address these issues.

• Contribute to using development tools, CI, source control and tracking system. 

• Work closely with our Embedded, Mobile and Web Engineering Managers and Architect on technical direction of the Cloud.

What we look for

• 8+ years’ experience

  • Designing highly scalable APIs and available distributed systems. 

  • with containerisation and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

  • Message queue frameworks/technologies

  • Experience with leveraging analytics, monitoring, observability software to drive decision making

  • Coding in Java or other backend OO languages

  • CI/CD pipelines, and experience integrating testing frameworks with these pipelines

  • Relational / non-relational databases (MySQL, MariaDB, ArangoDB, Snowflake, MongoDB, etc)

  • Backend microservice development, including REST, asynchronous messaging (Rabbit, etc.), and NoSQL solutions.

  • In one or more cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.

• Absolutely obsessed about improving the performance of the platform.

• Wish to stay hands-on in all technical aspects while leading a team of engineers

• Comfortable performing code reviews, coaching, and mentoring engineers

• Possess a strong desire to dig into complex problems and understand the root cause of the problem.

• Passionate about delivering high quality software and processes. 

• Comfortable working in an agile development environment. 

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams.

• Awareness of security best practices and standards.  

Nice to have

• You have experience with Mobile Technologies

• You have experience using Web Technologies

• You have experience using Embedded Technologies

• You have experience with Data Science or AI

Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer science, Engineering, or related technical field  

Why join Connected Fire Services?

• Welcoming, collaborative and connected work culture.

• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for information, support, discussion, and counselling for life’s challenges

• MacBook Pro is regularly refreshed.

• Flexible work hours.

• Hybrid Working. 1-3 days in the office per week (10am to 2pm)

• Health Care for you and your family

• Pension matched up to 7%

• Competitive Salary with yearly review.

• Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career.

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