Principal Redis & Observability Engineer — Flexible Schedule

Discovery; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 186,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits package

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Discovery in Rockville, MD is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to accelerate Redis infrastructure and reduce complexity. The role offers a base MD salary with additional market upside, reflecting ownership in a high-growth environment.

You will lead efforts across Java and Redis, craft Ansible tooling, and work closely with data teams to surface insights from production systems while ensuring secure Redis auth and robust observability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions.
• Fluency across Java and Redis, with strong opinions on both.

Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Work with data teams to surface insights from production systems.
• Stand up observability so failures are seen before customers.
• Build Ansible tooling to speed up Rockville engineers.
• Catch slow-to-anger Ansible regression in staging.
• Harden Redis auth for MD audit compliance.
• Bridge Goal Setting and Ansible so the platform talks.

Skills

Java

Redis

Ansible

Tools

Observability tooling

Job description

Discovery in Rockville, MD is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to accelerate Redis infrastructure and reduce complexity. The role offers a base MD salary with additional market upside, reflecting ownership in a high-growth environment.

You will lead efforts across Java and Redis, craft Ansible tooling, and work closely with data teams to surface insights from production systems while ensuring secure Redis auth and robust observability.