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As a Senior Principal Software Developer at the IC5 level, you will join a cross-functional team to design and build high-scale distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines. Your day-to-day responsibilities include architecting reliable and scalable solutions, mentoring engineers, and implementing agentic-first development practices. You will work closely with product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to translate broad goals into technical plans and ensure secure-by-default and responsible-AI practices are followed. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in software engineering, strong programming skills in languages like Java, Python, or Go, and deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and observability tools. Experience with AI-assisted development tools and LLM patterns is highly preferred, especially in regulated environments such as healthcare or security-sensitive contexts.
C/C++
Rust
High-concurrency systems
Low-level system design
Performance-critical service development
Distributed storage
WAL
B-tree
LSM tree
Data partitioning/sharding
Raft
Paxos
Multi-Paxos
Transaction Management (MVCC)
CAP theorem
Cloud infrastructure concepts
Geographically distributed teams
CI/CD
Java
Go
Python
C++
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
CI/CD
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
REST
JSON
Distributed Systems
Virtualized Infrastructure
High Availability Services
AI/ML