Sr Principal Software Engineer

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• Job Identification 303492
• Job Category Product Development
• Posting Date 10/27/2025, 07:29 PM
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 10+ years
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

• 10+ years experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems/managed services.
• Strong knowledge of C++/C , Systems Programming & Distributed Systems.
• Open to considering Java / C# other language skills as long as willing to transition to C/C++
• Proficient with data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Good understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures
• Good understanding of databases, No
  
  SQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies
• Strong understanding of Linux & Linux OS Internals
• Strong problem determination, problem resolution and performance tuning skills
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure and/or working on open source software/contributions to open source Redis/memcached/Cassandra/PSQL a strong plus.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will apply intermediate to advanced knowledge of software architecture to perform software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications or operating systems according to provided design specifications and conceive the same for open ended and/or green field market requirements. Build enhancements, new components, new services, within an existing software architecture and suggest improvements to the architecture, operational practices, scalability, resiliency.

You will:

• Work with Architects, business stakeholders and deliver new features/services and improvements
• Debug operational issues and suggest fixes, raise the operational bar and scalability of service(s)
• Assist customers onboarding to the service as needed
• Perform on-call operations duties on a rotating basis
• Reimagine service experiences and deliver proof points that improve the service along one or more dimensions (Semantic understanding to improve Operations, Usability, Cost to Serve, Availability, Storage tiering to name a few)
• This is a challenging role with expectations including but not limited to
  • Technical leadership to drive critical work items unlocking onboarding of large customers, service scalability, new product initiatives to name a few
  • Drive roadmap/vision/competitive analysis and/or bootstrap work streams to keep pace with landscape changes - covert and overt from competition>
  • Excellent communication skills to build consensus across stakeholders and when need be collaborate on business case to seek executive leadership approval.
  • Bring technical acumen and foresight in build/buy/partnership decisions

Top Four Skills for the Ideal Candidate

• Excellent design, architecture, leadership and System Programming coding skills
• Software Engineering and architecture experience with distributed systems/managed services within large scale environments
• 10+ years experience working on challenging issues with a self‑starter / self‑motivated attitude
• Hands‑on operations experience in a Dev Ops environment track record of delivering results blended with innovation and operational agility

We will consider candidates with PhD in Computer Science disciplines and 4+ years of industry experience as well.

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US:
Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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