Principal Engineer, The Financial Times

• You love collaborating with others to solve technical problems
• You have experience technically leading teams and projects
• You are an effective communicator, able to break down tasks as well as giving/receiving constructive feedback
• You are customer focused, with a strong focus on building and running reliable, stable and secure systems
• You are enthusiastic about operability & monitoring of systems and Cloud infrastructure

Desirable

• The FT is looking for a Principal Engineer (Individual Contributor) to lead our Edge Delivery & Observability work
• There are two teams in this area
• The Edge Delivery & Observability (EDO) team looks after the cloud edge capabilities like CDNs, DNS etc, along with the monitoring and observability infrastructure at the FT
• Examples of the kind of work this team tackles are:
• Managing and improving our central solution for observability tools like Graphite, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus and Cloudflare
• Providing self service APIs and tools that enable other delivery teams to utilise the monitoring solutions
• Providing support to other delivery teams at the FT and helping them utilise core SaaS infrastructure products effectively
• Ensuring our solutions have high engineering standards (robust, fit for purpose, include synthetic testing and/or application monitoring) and meet our quality standards
• The API Gateway team is a contract team, based in Bulgaria, who work on our API Gateway stack. This is built on top of Tyk, an open source API Gateway
• Both teams are part of the Infrastructure & Operations Group at the Financial Times
• We have a devops culture of empowered teams who take full responsibility for their systems. Infrastructure & Operations purpose: We keep the business running
• Our job is to support and deliver fast, reliable, and cost-effective technology - so our FT colleagues can do their best work. We are responsive, we support change, and always aim for high performance. When we’re at our best, the whole business runs better
• Principal Engineers provide technical direction and support to teams across the group
• Each principal engineer looks after one or two feature teams, leading them to deliver quality tooling and products that reduce developer toil for all engineering teams at the FT
• In addition to steering their immediate teams, Principal Engineers play a key role in the management of the department
• Work closely with the people manager within the teams
• Engage with other disciplines (e.g.delivery, product management) and teams across FT to make sure we are all working together effectively
• Model and help set and reinforce our inclusive, respectful, multidisciplinary and open culture
• Help continuously improve our technology, process and culture, take ownership of problems and see solutions through to completion
• Manage and maintain strong relationships with vendors
• Gain a deep understanding of the FT as a business and use that knowledge to communicate clearly with your peers, reports, and senior management
• Actively collaborate across teams both within and outside of I&O
• Contribute to company-wide processes, frameworks, and guidelines