Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to work hybrid (3 days/week onsite in San Jose or remote within the Pacific Timezone) who will architect and deliver scalable microservices, build event-driven pipelines, and design high-performance data models while collaborating across teams to ensure product reliability and efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and deliver scalable microservices on EKS using GoLang, ensuring uptime and performance goals are met
• Build resilient event-driven pipelines with Kafka and MQTT to support evolving product needs
• Design and optimize data models for efficient ingestion and querying across various databases

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in backend engineering with a focus on scalable microservices in production using Go
• Proven experience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka
• Strong data engineering skills, particularly with relational databases (MySQL) and at least one of ElasticSearch or Neo4J
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deployment and operational ownership