Job Role - Principal Software Engineer (Rust / C#)

(Hiring for Multiple roles at various levels)

Experience - 5 to 15 years of total experience

Must Have Skills - Rust, C#, and JavaScript, API Development, Distributed Systems / Storage, Microservices-based Architectures, Storage domain,

Responsibilities

- Leading the design and evolution of critical, large-scale systems and platform architectures that underpin key business capabilities and define the long-term technical foundation of the company.
- Defining and driving the strategic adoption and application of AI-assisted development practices and AI-enabled system capabilities at a company-wide level, identifying where AI creates transformational leverage and connecting those capabilities directly to engineering effectiveness, product innovation, and long-term business outcomes.
- Defining and driving company-wide technical strategy and architecture, aligning long-term engineering direction with business objectives and multi-year product goals.
- Identifying and driving long-term technical investments and architectural initiatives that shape the future of the platform.
- Establishing architectural principles, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability across the organization.
- Influencing executive, product, and engineering leadership to align on technical direction, trade-offs, and strategic priorities.
- Driving alignment across multiple organizations and teams to ensure cohesive system design and execution.
- Operating in highly ambiguous and complex problem spaces, defining strategy, direction, and execution paths at company scale.
- Leading high-impact, cross-organizational initiatives that span multiple systems, domains, or business units.
- Identifying, communicating, and mitigating systemic technical risks across the organization.
- Defining the company-wide strategy for resolving technical debt and evolving legacy systems, including establishing architectural investment roadmaps, prioritizing re-platforming initiatives, and driving organizational alignment on long-term modernization efforts.
- Advancing system reliability, scalability, and performance through improvements in architecture, observability, and operational maturity at company scale.
- Driving the development and adoption of platform capabilities, shared services, and architectural patterns that improve consistency and productivity across teams.
- Acting as a force multiplier by mentoring senior, staff, and senior staff engineers and enabling organizations to operate more effectively and independently.
- Promoting a culture of engineering excellence by setting and reinforcing high standards for system design,



code quality, and operational practices.
- Contributing to technical due diligence and evaluation of strategic initiatives, architectural investments, and external partnerships.

Requirements

- B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of defining and driving technical strategy at an organizational or companywide level.
- Solid computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and industry-standard design patterns and practices.
- Deep experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed systems and platform architectures, with a track record of making architectural decisions that stand up at company scale over multi-year horizons.
- Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production systems on public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including deep knowledge of cloudnative services across compute, storage, networking, and managed data with a strong understanding of cloud architecture patterns, cost optimization at scale, and security best practices.
- Proven ability to operate in highly ambiguous and complex environments, define long-term technical direction, and drive alignment and execution across multiple organizations without direct authority.
- Strong understanding of system design trade-offs across scalability, reliability, performance, and cost, with the ability to define and communicate architectural direction at a company-wide level.
- Experience influencing and aligning executive leadership and stakeholders across multiple organizations on technical direction and strategic priorities.
- Experience identifying and mitigating systemic technical risks across large systems, organizations, and multi-year architectural investments.
- Deep experience with observability practices, including structured logging, metrics collection, distributed tracing, and alerting, with the ability to define and advance operational maturity standards across the organization.
- A forward-looking approach to AI-assisted development: able to define and lead company-wide strategy for AI adoption, evaluate where AI creates transformational leverage at scale,



and connect those capabilities directly to product innovation, engineering effectiveness, and business outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to improve engineering productivity and system consistency through platform, tooling, and architectural improvements at organizational scale.
- Experience contributing to technical due diligence and the evaluation of strategic initiatives, architectural investments, and external partnerships.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including executive and business leadership.

Technology & Tools

- Experience with full stack and API development across both frontend and backend layers, with the ability to engage deeply in technical implementation and architectural review across the stack.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: Rust, C#, and JavaScript.
- Proficient with modern authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML) and the security architecture considerations that inform their application at scale.
- Experience maintaining and evolving large-scale production systems, including defining and advancing standards for incident response, post-mortem processes, and long-term reliability at the organizational level.
- Deep experience with large-scale distributed systems and microservices-based architectures.
- Experience with containerization and container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure patterns, including serverless architectures, managed Kubernetes services, infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, or Bicep), and cost-aware resource design at company scale.
- Experience defining and advancing the implementation of modern security patterns and practices across the organization, including secure coding standards, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, and security architecture.
- Broad and deep knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns, with the ability to establish and evolve company-wide standards.
- Experience with CI/CD systems and modern software delivery practices, including automated testing gates, progressive deployment strategies, and platform-level delivery improvements at organizational scale.
- Deep familiarity with relational and non-relational data stores and the architectural considerations that inform design decisions at platform and company scale.
- Deep experience with observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering practices, with a track record of defining and advancing operational excellence standards across the organization.

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