Principal Software Engineer
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About The Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across complex, mission-critical systems, shaping architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technology strategy. You will operate at both a strategic and hands-on level, guiding teams, influencing stakeholders, and ensuring the delivery of scalable, resilient, and high-quality software solutions. This role is pivotal in driving engineering excellence, enabling innovation, and aligning technology outcomes with business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for key platforms and systems
- Lead the design of scalable, secure, and high-performance distributed systems
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across multiple teams
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices, standards, and design principles
- Collaborate with product, architecture, and leadership teams to align technical solutions with business goals
- Lead critical technical decision-making, including trade-offs, build vs buy, and platform selection
- Drive system reliability, performance, and observability through proactive engineering practices
- Oversee code quality, system design reviews, and technical governance processes
- Identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring long-term maintainability and scalability
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and engineering excellence
- Extensive experience designing and delivering complex, large-scale software systems
- Deep expertise in modern architecture patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven, cloud-native)
- Strong programming background (preferably C#, .NET) with the ability to contribute hands-on when needed
- Proven experience influencing technical strategy and leading cross-team initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop senior engineers and technical leaders
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, distributed systems, and system scalability
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD, and modern engineering toolchains
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Track record of delivering high-impact technical solutions aligned to business outcomes
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent practical experience.
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