Principal Software Engineer
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8th LightTechnology Consultancy
United StatesFull-TimePrincipal
Salary$151,535-$220,881 USD (across four geographical structures)
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLJavaJavascriptMachine LearningRubyTypeScriptC#Go.NETReactDevOpsScalaMLOps
Requirements
- 10+ years of repeated success on a variety of software projects.
- Deep consulting acumen and ability to drive impactful, measurable outcomes.
- Proven experience building and shipping production-grade platforms and infrastructure.
- Experience taking AI and agentic systems from prototype to production.
- Expertise in multiple languages and frameworks including Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R, and SQL.
- Deep understanding of scalability, security, reliability, performance, and observability.
- Experience with ML lifecycle integration, recommendation engines, NLP, computer vision, and RAG pipelines.
- Track record of successful modernization and replatforming of legacy systems.
- Ability to facilitate alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong mentorship skills with the ability to provide effective feedback at scale.
- Experience with platform engineering and Infrastructure as Code is strongly preferred.
- Experience with DevSecOps, MLOps, and agentic frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Rapidly build trust with clients by demonstrating technical expertise and domain understanding.
- Drive platform engineering work and strategy, connecting long-term technical vision to delivery.
- Advise clients on architecture, scalability, and platform evolution.
- Collaborate on systems involving the full ML lifecycle from ingestion to deployment.
- Lead or initiate formal feedback conversations, including retrospectives.
- Design and manage high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements.
- Coach client engineering teams and transfer knowledge to level up practices.
- Influence client CTOs and executive stakeholders on technical strategy.
- Partner with internal account teams on planning and pre-sales scope shaping.
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