Principal Software Engineer (307152)
Principal Software Engineer (307152)
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Job Description
Job Purpose and Impact
We are seeking a highly experienced software delivery SME to join the Software Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE). As aPrincipal Software Engineer you will lead from the centerplaying a pivotal leadership and public-facing role within the engineering community.
You will be responsible for helping shape and elevate Cargills digital ecosystem by guiding engineering teams on full-stack application development modern software engineering practices platform adoption and tooling enablement. A key focus for this role will be triaging issues rapidly experimenting and prototyping solutions and having no hesitation to initiate code in order to test ideas and drive quick resolutions.
You will also serve on the front lines of a large-scale migration of approximately 700 applications from on-premises environments to AWS providing technical leadership in all CoE related interest throughout this complex transformation.
This is a highly visible hands-on role where technical excellence communication skills rapid problem-solving and a proactive leadership mindset are essential.
Key Accountabilities
Technical Leadership and Community Engagement: Serve as a visible leader for the Software Engineering CoE actively engaging with product teams platform teams and leadership stakeholders to drive engineering best practices represent CoE interests and foster adoption of shared tools and platforms.
Application Development and Modernization: Apply advanced software engineering patterns and principles to design develop integrate maintain and troubleshoot modern software solutions with a strong focus on security scalability and developer experience.
Support for AWS Migration: Actively participate in the ongoing migration of 700 applications from on-premises to AWS providing technical expertise in cloud architecture troubleshooting migration-related challenges and ensuring operational excellence post-migration.
Automation & Tooling: Lead efforts to implement and refine CI/CD pipelines automation practices infrastructure as code and other DevOps practices to enable efficient secure and consistent application delivery.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Minimum of 10 years of related software engineering experience.
Strong expertise in automating CI/CD pipelines full-stack application development infrastructure as code and cloud migration (AWS highly preferred).
Hands-on experience coding with Java JavaScript React Golang and ability to adapt to other languages as needed.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience working in or closely with platform engineering teams leveraging shared services artifact repositories and unified observability frameworks.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
