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Principal Software Engineer - U.S. (remote)
At a Glance
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Posted
- 2026-07-22T13:42:19-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Automation
- Engineering
Benefits & Perks
medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as 401(k) Competitive salary p
Requirements
● Experience with high volume distributed technical architectures with a high cost of failure, i.e.
focus on reliability and availability
● Experience with some amount of ‘Big Data’ technologies such as: ElasticSearch, NoSQL Stores, Kafka, Columnar Databases, DataFlow or Pipeline Systems, Graph DataStores
● Experience with leveraging common infrastructure services like Enterprise Message Bus platforms, configuration services, Toggle management systems, and observability systems like Logging and Distributing Tracing Systems
● Experience with Domain Driven Design concepts and practices such as bounded contexts, event storming, specification by example, etc.
● Experience with design, implementation, and operation of data-intensive, distributed systems
Responsibilities
The Principal Software Engineer shapes and evolves our architecture using Distributed Domain Driven Design practices, ultimately ensuring the robustness and scalability of our systems.
They influence architectural directions, and through project-embedded consultation.
They guide teams to leverage best practices and design patterns.
Architecture Leadership
: Drives the definition and evolution of our architecture using Distributed Domain Driven Design practices.
Acts as the strategy leader for key Architecture Quality Attributes (e.g., Availability, Performance, Scalability, Securibility) to inform architecture assessments.