About this role
We are looking for an engineering leader who is passionate about open source software, solving challenges in distributed systems, and building highly talented teams. In this role, the Principal Engineer (PE) will be responsible for delivering foundational software to grow both the open-source community and our business over the next decade. The PE is expected to draw from deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers, complete hands-on technical work, and provide leadership on complex technical issues. The PE will be responsible for delivering some of our most strategic technical projects, designing new software systems at the forefront of distributed database technology, and having a significant impact on both the Valkey OSS community and ElastiCache. The role empowers the PE to impact ElastiCache and the Valkey open-source community. The PE will design and direct technical solutions across our large-scale in-memory datastore infrastructure addressing customer demand and market competition by envisioning innovative in-memory caching solutions.