Principal Software Applications Engineer

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Job Description

What you will do (Job Specific Details on the nature of the job and responsibilities).

We are seeking an exceptional Sr. Principal/Principal Engineer to lead the design architecture and development of a comprehensive cloud platform. This role requires a visionary technologist with 15 years of experience in building and scaling large-scale distributed systems microservices architectures and cloud infrastructure. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across multiple service domains mentor engineering teams and drive architectural excellence across our rapidly evolving platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect a scalable highly available cloud platform with 15 microservices including Audit Logs APIGateway Device Health Usage & Capacity Device Status Users Applications IAM License AlertsMetricsNetwork Visualization and Orchestration.

• Establish and enforce architectural standards best practices and patterns across all platform services.

• Lead the technical strategy for cloud platform evolution including infrastructure decisions technology selections and deployment architectures.

• Mentor and guide engineering teams in microservices design providing code reviews and architectural guidance.

• Drive performance optimization scalability improvements and reliability enhancements across the platform.

• Collaborate with product DevOps and security teams to align platform capabilities with business objectives.

• Define and implement monitoring observability and alerting strategies for complex distributed systems.

• Lead technical investigations and resolution of complex production issues.

• Evaluate and integrate new technologies and frameworks to enhance platform capabilities.

• Participate in architectural review boards and technology steering committees.

Required Qualifications

• 15 years of software engineering experience with at least 8 years in distributed systems and microservices architecture.

• Demonstrated expertise in designing and building large-scale cloud platforms or SaaS applications.

• Deep understanding of microservices architecture API design and event-driven systems.

• Strong proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) and containerization (Docker Kubernetes).

• Expertise in modern programming languages (Java Go Python or similar) and frameworks.

• Hands-on experience with database technologies (relational and NoSQL) data management and eventual consistency patterns.

• Strong background in DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.

• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives and guide cross-functional teams.

• Experience with security and compliance considerations in cloud platform design.

• Bachelorsormastersdegree incomputer science Computer Engineering or equivalent professional experience.

Job Description Summary

Qualifications

Basic Requirements and Preferred Qualifications for the job.

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