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Principal Software Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Thu, Oct 08, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To support a growing platform engineering team, the full-time Principal Software Engineer will build self-service APIs and tools, manage stakeholder relationships, and ensure the platform's quality and reliability in a remote work environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Push quality attributes into the platform, implementing testing and regression gates, and ensuring visibility of costs
  • Run the platform as a curated internal product, identifying capabilities to build and measuring adoption and developer satisfaction
  • Build software solutions for CI/CD, environments, and observability, enabling teams to operate independently
Required Qualifications
  • Experience in both software engineering and systems engineering, particularly with cloud, Kubernetes, and networking
  • Proven reliability ownership, including SLOs, observability, and incident response
  • Demonstrated customer empathy through engagement with engineering teams to understand needs
  • Experience managing long-running projects, particularly migrations and platform sunset processes
  • Current hands-on production coding experience and a pragmatic approach to software development

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