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Principal Software Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Thu, Oct 22, 2026
This job expires in: 28 days

Job Summary

Seeking a deeply technical and ownership-minded Principal Software Engineer for a fully remote, full-time position, responsible for managing the technical debt roadmap, driving platform modernization, and leading architectural decisions across a scalable GCP platform.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own the technical debt roadmap and lead platform modernization efforts through incremental migration patterns
  • Build and operate an AI-native engineering workflow, ensuring reliable and auditable outputs from multi-agent orchestration
  • Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems, focusing on scalability, reliability, and compliance with security standards
Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles in architecture and technical direction
  • Proven experience in designing and operating scalable distributed systems and microservices in production
  • Hands-on experience with Google Cloud services, including Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL
  • Strong production-grade Python skills, with experience in async services and APIs
  • Experience delivering production software with AI coding agents and understanding context engineering

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