Principal Software Engineer (.Net)
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DeimosCloud Services
You must be based in one of the countries we currently hire in - in Africa or the UK.Full-TimePrincipal
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPostgreSQLGCPKubernetesC#Azure.NETMicroservices
Requirements
- 10+ years in software engineering, with clear evidence of operating at principal level.
- Expert-level proficiency in modern .NET (Core / .NET 6+).
- Strong understanding of CLR internals, async programming, performance tuning, and memory management.
- Proven track record of architecting and scaling production systems.
- Strong experience with microservices, event-driven architecture, and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS).
- Deep experience in at least one primary cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Strong understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes or equivalent).
- Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB).
- Proven experience decomposing monoliths into scalable distributed systems.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and DevOps practices.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and lifecycle of critical systems—from design through production—ensuring they are scalable, resilient, observable, and operationally efficient.
- Design and build high-scale, distributed services using modern .NET.
- Define and evolve system architecture, including the decomposition of monolithic systems into microservices.
- Act as a technical authority evaluating and introducing frameworks, tools, and engineering practices.
- Design robust, versioned, and well-governed APIs (REST/gRPC/event-driven).
- Drive best practices around logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
- Set the benchmark for code quality, testing strategy, and CI/CD practices.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, acting as a force multiplier across squads.
- Partner with product, business, and executive stakeholders to align technical strategy with business outcomes.
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