Principal Data Storage Engineer & Technical Lead

SciTec; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 164,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Safe Harbor 401(k) match

Company paid HSA Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Generous Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Job summary

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Data Storage Domain. You will guide storage design, evaluation, and implementation for mission-critical data processing and workflows.

Ideal candidates have deep storage expertise, strong communication, and experience mentoring engineers to adopt best practices in Linux environments. U.S. citizenship and DoD-related work are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and 10+ years of production software experience.
• Deep expertise with relational databases and storage technologies.
• Experience evaluating tradeoffs among latency, throughput, and scalability.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python/Go/Java/C++/TypeScript).

Responsibilities

• Assess current storage technologies and data access patterns across teams.
• Define evaluation criteria and maintain a core collection of storage technologies.
• Document ADRs, reference architectures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Build reference implementations and reusable configurations for storage use cases.
• Guide data modeling, indexing, and performance optimization.
• Lead replication, backup, and recovery planning; monitor throughput and latency.

Skills

Data storage systems

Relational databases

Distributed storage concepts

Backend languages

Linux environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Redis/Memcached

AWS S3

Job description

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Data Storage Domain. You will guide storage design, evaluation, and implementation for mission-critical data processing and workflows.

Ideal candidates have deep storage expertise, strong communication, and experience mentoring engineers to adopt best practices in Linux environments. U.S. citizenship and DoD-related work are required.