Principal Software Development Engineer (Microservices)

What you'll do

• Set the technical roadmap for API-first microservices and multi-region architecture; lead migrations and modernization.
• Build and operate event-driven services, delivery workflows, observability, reliability practices, and security controls.
• Drive engineering standards and cross-functional collaboration, including service ownership, contracts, reviews, and incident response.

What they ask for

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions in the functional domain.
• 12+ years in software development, including 4+ years building and operating production microservices at significant scale; proficiency in Go.
• Experience with distributed systems and messaging, Kubernetes in AWS at scale, Docker, Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Comprehensive reliability and security experience, including SLIs/SLOs, observability, incident management, service mesh, mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and secrets management.

Nice to have

• Kafka; EKS.
• Chaos engineering, advanced performance testing, multi-region design, migration leadership, event contract governance, OSS contributions, technical talks, patents, or published design writing.

Pay

$185,500 — $265,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Go, Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Prometheus

AI focus

Leverage, secure, or position AI-driven solutions to optimize functional outcomes; preferred experience using AI technologies and workflows to improve operational efficiency.