Principal Platform Software Engineer

Job summary

Leads platform projects crossing multiple teams, evolving runtimes or middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. Diagnoses and resolves complex cross-service issues; enforces versioning, compatibility, and safe rollout practices. Drives observability standards, capacity planning, and resilience patterns across several workloads.

Qualifications

• Produces migration guides and adoption playbooks that raise ecosystem consistency and developer experience.
• to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.
• Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.
• Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
• Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
• Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
• Develops fixes for identified issues.
• Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
• Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:
• Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion.

Responsibilities

• Platform Software Development:
• Lead cross-team evolution of middleware patterns or runtimes to standardize interoperability at scale.
• Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies that minimize downstream breaks.
• Drive shared observability baselines (SLOs, error budgets) and resilience patterns across several services.
• Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:
• Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies
• Planning & Execution:
• Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to

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