Principal Software Engineer

This position is needed to lead the planning, design, development, and testing of large-scale software systems and new product capabilities, including cloud and internet-facing services. You’ll set technical direction, drive delivery using modern engineering practices, and ensure what we ship is secure, compliant, and production-ready. You’ll partner closely with product and engineering teams to turn requirements into reliable, high-quality software.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and system design for complex, distributed software systems; guide teams toward scalable, maintainable solutions; Design, implement, and review high-quality code for core services, APIs, platforms, and/or user-facing applications; Translate business goals into technical roadmaps, identify tradeoffs, and align stakeholders on solution direction; Improve system resiliency, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency; establish SLOs/SLAs and operational practices; Drive standards for coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and documentation; champion automation and quality; Partner with engineering managers, staff engineers, and product leaders to coordinate delivery across multiple teams; Coach and mentor engineers at all levels; lead design reviews, incident postmortems, and technical deep dives; Identify technical risks early (security, scalability, compliance) and drive mitigation plans

Requirements

12+ years of experience designing and developing highly-available, high-scale, secure, mission critical native cloud enterprise SaaS applications in Java, Go or Python; Knowledge of architectural patterns and archetypes for building mature services, especially for distributed and multi-regional deployments; Excellent abilities in high level service design - modeling interfaces and internals in a proper modular, composable, and extensible way; Experience with AWS, GCP or other public cloud infrastructure platforms; Experience building distributed systems at scale based on microservices architecture; Extensive experience with REST API design and implementation; Experience working with data architecture such as Clickhouse, Lakehouse, Snowflake; Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and caches; Familiarity with streaming systems such as Kafka, Flink, Spark; Experience with container technologies - Docker/Kubernetes; Experience implementing modern automated testing and CI/CD pipelines. Develop, Test, Deploy your code; Strong expertise in solving complex production issues

Nice to have

Multi-region deployment

Benefits

competitive pay; generous time off; ample parental and wellness leave; healthcare; retirement savings program; support for volunteering and donation efforts