Chief Principal Software Engineer- Cloud

About Pierce, an Oshkosh company

At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

Ready to shape the future of Connected Vehicle IoT solutions for mission critical equipment that help our everyday heroes? If you are driven by the idea of building a better world through innovative technology, thrive on technical challenges, and are excited to architect next-generation connected vehicle solutions at scale, we invite you to join us as Chief Engineer Principal Software. As a “Player-Coach-Architect”, you will lead the technical evolution of our Azure-based IoT Cloud platform while remaining hands-on in the development of scalable and reliable cloud solutions for Fire, Refuse Collection, and Concrete Mixer markets.

Your impact:

Technical Leadership - Lead the architecture for connected vehicle Azure cloud platform, driving design decisions that ensure scalability, reliability, security, performance, built in quality and cost efficiency across backend, data, web portal, and mobile app.

Hands-On Engineering - Lead by example through hands-on development of cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven systems, and data platforms while providing technical guidance to the team.

Engineering Excellence - Establish architecture standards, coding practices, design patterns to ensure high-quality, maintainable solutions. Mentor engineers and cultivate a culture of continuous learning.

Cross functional Collaboration - Collaborate with embedded engineers and product owner, remove technical roadblocks and help team successfully deliver sprint commitments.

Cloud Platform Optimization – Drive continuous improvements in performance, security and cost optimization.

Minimum Qualifications

Education - Bachelor’s degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.

8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications.

Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar programming language.

Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid Namespace, Event Hub Namespace, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Communication Service, Azure Service Bus

Experience designing cloud data store