Principal SDE Cover Letter

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the principal SDE position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for mentoring and practical help to portfolio architects and development teams in the area of technology solutions, development practices, tooling and the like.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience creating v1 products, or within a startup or incubation business
• Passion for mentoring and sponsoring engineers to grow in their careers
• Excellence in collaboration across teams within and outside the organization
• Experience working with cloud platforms or business productivity applications
• Set a high bar throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing and operations
• Own the design and implementation of significant portions of the product development, and serve as a leader and mentor for other engineers in their areas of work
• Help set the features, architecture, and best practices of the team, and have significant influence on our overall strategy
• Experience on both Windows and Linux platforms

I would like to submit my application for the principal SDE opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for team leadership for a for large-scale IT program with the mission to unify software development with operational and infrastructure support.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Leading, mentoring and guiding a team of 6 to 8 software engineers from across the world working with Travel & Transportation customers
• Giving thoughtful feedback, nurturing a rigorous engineering environment, and providing contexts for team members to grow
• Plan the team’s work to achieve goals & respond effectively to changing priorities while maintaining team health and strong results
• Participate as a member of the Commercial Software Engineering extended leadership team
• Drive early technology programs and product validation in partnership with the CSE Engineering Engagement and Strategic Technology team
• Deliver ongoing market and competitive insights from a technical perspective
• Strong business acumen and track record of build technical and business relationships with senior executives
• An entrepreneurial mind-set which fosters an environment of creativity and inspires innovation and risk taking

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the principal SDE position.

Previously, I was responsible for technical expertise, mentoring and direction; working closely with API team, product teams & offshore teams to ensure technology moves forward.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Awareness of emerging technologies and experience with the use and selection of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
• Self-starter who is able to initiate research and evaluate new software development tools, processes and procedures
• Working knowledge of Ballistic Missile Defense concepts, Battle Management and Command and Control (BM/C2) systems
• Experience working on a global team highly preferred
• Technical experience in at least one major technical area of distributed systems, such as scale-out or fault-tolerance
• Knowledge with both object oriented and service oriented design patterns
• MS/PhD in Software Engineering or Machine Learning/ Artificial Intelligence
• Architectural experience with large scale implementation

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the principal SDE position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for feedback, mentor other engineers and help to improve our day-to-day development process and live site maintenance.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience building hosted products that handle large distributed workflows
• Experience developing APIs and client libraries (SDKs)
• Excellent coding skills, including server-side language experience (Java, Go, Python, C#, C++)
• Leading development with modern software engineering practices of unit testing, continuous integration and deployment
• A masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering
• Experience building and deploying machine learning models using frameworks such as Keras, PyTorch, Apache Spark and Scikit-Learn
• Experience working with web service frameworks (Flask, ASP.NET, Akka)
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Istio)

I am excited to be applying for the position of principal SDE. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for consulting and technical guidance to the development teams on the development of best practices, implementation approach, troubleshooting, etc.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• An enthusiasm for travel and working across the world
• Create a reliable, scalable, and high performance service requiring exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems
• Be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software making software achieve its operational goals
• Knowledge of instrumenting applications with user analytics frameworks like Matomo and Google Analytics
• Working knowledge providing OpenTracing frameworks using tools such as Jaeger
• Willing and able to learn new technologies at a rapid pace
• Experience enabling automation and application self-healing based on telemetry and events
• Experience building IDEs, APIs, or SDKs