Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

Leading complex reliability initiatives, the full-time remote Principal Software Engineer will shape reliability strategy, ensure operational excellence, and influence system design across teams while focusing on the long-term reliability and scalability of the platform.

Key responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of reliability, availability, and resiliency strategies for large-scale distributed systems primarily using Java
• Lead efforts to prevent and mitigate incidents, serving as a senior coordination point during major incidents
• Partner with product engineers and architects to ensure reliability and operability are prioritized in system design

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or systems engineering roles
• Extremely strong proficiency with the Java programming language and its ecosystem
• Deep experience operating complex, distributed systems in production environments
• Expert understanding of incident management and service reliability
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives across teams and organizational boundaries