Principal Software Development Engineer- Go

Required

• You thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable building the path as you walk it, viewing unstructured environments as raw material to build something meaningful.
• You act like an owner with a passion for the mission, operating with integrity, a bias for action, and the agility to navigate between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
• You are a problem-solver who is energized by complex technical challenges and driven to deliver high-impact solutions.
• You are a high-trust collaborator who builds strong team relationships, embracing continuous feedback, candor, and respect to earn trust and achieve shared goals.
• You are a learner with a growth mindset, constantly seeking feedback and developing your skills with purpose to become a stronger teammate.
• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
• 12+ years in software development with 4+ years building and operating production microservices at significant scale, including proficiency in Go
• Deep experience with distributed systems and messaging (Kafka preferred; SQS/RabbitMQ acceptable), alongside patterns such as CQRS and Event Sourcing where fit-for-purpose
• Kubernetes in AWS at scale (EKS preferred), strong Docker fundamentals, Infrastructure-as-Code, and GitOps workflows
• Strong SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Amazon RDS/Aurora) and NoSQL (Cassandra/MongoDB/DynamoDB) design and scaling with familiarity with multi-region data trade-offs, alongside performance engineering and cost optimization in AWS
• Comprehensive reliability and security experience including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, metrics (Prometheus), tracing (OpenTelemetry), SLO-based alerting, incident management, postmortems, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, and secrets management (KMS/Vault)
• What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)