Principal Software Engineer
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8th LightSoftware consulting
Location: United StatesFull-TimePrincipal
Salary151,535 - 189,418 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- Typically over the course of 10+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonJavaJavascriptTypeScriptGoReact
Requirements
- Bring typically 10+ years of repeated success across a variety of projects.
- Build and ship production-grade platforms, reusable foundations, tools, infrastructure, and workflows.
- Take AI and agentic systems from prototype to production, with understanding of infrastructure, authentication, and observability.
- Deliver consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, and client industries.
- Lead production-grade software development using languages and frameworks such as Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R, and SQL.
- Build or integrate AI/ML features, including recommendation engines, NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics, RAG pipelines, and agents.
- Lead modernization and replatforming efforts for legacy systems.
- Address architecture-level concerns including scalability, security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and observability.
- Facilitate alignment among technical and non-technical stakeholders through ambiguity and complexity.
- Mentor teams, share knowledge, and improve team practices.
Responsibilities
- Drive platform engineering work at client organizations, connecting long-term technical vision to shipped work.
- Lead platform strategy and delivery across diverse platform types.
- Advise clients on architecture, scalability, and platform evolution.
- Collaborate on systems spanning the ML lifecycle, from data ingestion and preprocessing to deployment, integration, and performance monitoring.
- Design and manage high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements.
- Coach client engineering teams, transfer knowledge, and improve engineering practices.
- Influence client CTOs and executive decisions, and plan technical work across organizational boundaries.
- Partner with account teams on planning, opportunity identification, stakeholder relationships, and pre-sales scope shaping.
- Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers to team progress.
- Apply architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and document design rationale.
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