Principal Software Engineer – Platform Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$250K - $350K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 8–12 years of experience designing and building backend or platform software for enterprise SaaS or cloud-native applications, with a primary focus on application-layer engineering, not infrastructure operations.
- Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, MySQL, and RESTful API design — demonstrated through architecting complex, high-throughput production systems.
- 5+ years working in cloud environments (AWS preferred); strong understanding of how cloud services affect software design, performance, and cost — not just how to configure them.
- Demonstrated experience independently driving multi-team software design decisions: writing design docs, facilitating alignment, and managing technical tradeoffs.
- Strong command of distributed systems concepts: event-driven architecture, eventual consistency, multi-tenancy isolation, rate limiting, and fault tolerance — applied through code, not configuration.
- Demonstrated active use of Generative AI coding tools in professional software development within the past 12 months.
Benefits
- $0 monthly premium and other flexible medical, dental, and vision plans effective on the first day of employment
- 401k plan
- Discretionary Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Equity
- Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
- Monthly Lunch on Legion
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