Principal Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Jun 04, 2026
This job expires in: 29 days
Job Summary
To support a growing team, the full-time Principal Software Engineer will lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategies, and deliver scalable distributed systems in a 100% remote environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Define architectural standards and system design principles for engineering work across multiple business units
- Lead the design and implementation of fault-tolerant distributed systems operating at global scale
- Drive enterprise modernization initiatives, including microservices transformation and legacy decommissioning
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Ten or more years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven expertise in designing distributed, high-scale systems in production
- Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages
- Strong expertise in reliability engineering and distributed architectures
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