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Principal Software Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: Base+commission
Reviewed: Fri, Oct 30, 2026
This job expires in: 29 days

Job Summary

Seeking a Principal Software Engineer in a full-time remote role, the candidate will manage infrastructure automation, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring operational excellence across multi-cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities
  • Scale and maintain enterprise Chef cookbooks and automate provisioning across bare metal and virtual machine infrastructures
  • Optimize Jenkins automation pipelines for continuous integration and deployment of infrastructure code, integrating security and testing workflows
  • Lead pull request review processes, establish engineering governance, and mentor engineers on infrastructure-as-code principles
Required Qualifications
  • 12+ years of hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools like Chef
  • 8+ years of experience managing bare metal and enterprise virtualized infrastructure
  • 8+ years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Jenkins
  • 8+ years of experience establishing Git workflows and conducting thorough pull request code reviews
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

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