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Principal Software Engineer

$100k - $150k

Bright Vision Technologies

Bright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to create scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications.
As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of transforming business processes through technology.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (Continental United States)
Position Type: In-house Bright Vision Technologies SOW engagement (no third-party client or vendor)
Salary: $100K - $150K

Experience: 10+ years
Sponsorship: No new H1B sponsorship available. H1B transfers welcomed for qualified candidates.
Employment Type: Full-time, direct W2 with Bright Vision Technologies (no C2C, no 1099, no third-party)
Engagement: Long-term, multi-year, aligned to the Bright Vision SOW delivery roadmap
Compensation: Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.

Employment Terms & Visa Policy
This is a 100% remote, full-time, direct W2 position with Bright Vision Technologies.
This role is part of Bright Vision Technologies’ in-house Statement of Work (SOW) engagement. The client, end customer, and employer for this position is Bright Vision Technologies — there is no third-party client, vendor, or implementation partner involved.
We do not engage in C2C, 1099, or third-party arrangements for this role.

BUT STRICTLY NO C2C/1099/3RD PARTY COMPANIES. ALL OUR ROLES ARE W2 AND NO 3RD PARTY BROKERING PLEASE.
Candidates must be willing to work directly as a full-time W2 employee of Bright Vision Technologies and contribute to our in-house SOW deliverables.
No new H1B sponsorship is available for this role.

However, candidates who are currently on a valid H1B visa and require a transfer are welcome to apply. We will support H1B transfers for qualified candidates.
For every role, a technical coding assessment is mandatory. Please apply only if you are confident in your technical abilities and hands-on experience.

Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver highly scalable, resilient distributed systems. This role represents the highest level of individual technical contribution within the organization, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, reliability architecture, and cross-organizational technical leadership. The ideal candidate will drive strategic engineering decisions, serve as a technical authority across multiple teams and platforms, and combine deep technical mastery with mature judgment, broad influence, and the ability to mentor and elevate senior engineers across the organization.

Key Responsibilities
  • Define enterprise-level architectural standards, system design principles, and engineering guardrails that shape engineering work across multiple business units.
  • Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that operate at global scale.
  • Architect multi-region, fault-tolerant, and globally distributed platforms with rigorous attention to availability, durability, and disaster recovery.
  • Drive enterprise modernization initiatives, including microservices transformation, platform consolidation, and legacy decommissioning.
  • Define API governance, data architecture, and service communication patterns adopted across the engineering organization.
  • Design systems for extreme scalability, availability, and security, including detailed capacity planning and resilience modeling.
  • Evaluate and select high-performance data storage solutions appropriate to each major workload class.
  • Lead reliability engineering and incident response improvements, raising the bar on operational excellence enterprise-wide.
  • Conduct deep architectural reviews and performance audits across multiple platforms.
  • Guide engineering teams on concurrency, scalability, observability, and optimization strategies.
  • Design observability and monitoring frameworks at enterprise scale, defining standards for metrics, logs, and traces that work consistently across many teams and many production environments.
  • Define DevOps, CI/CD, and automation strategy across engineering teams and platforms.
  • Partner with executive leadership and product management on technology roadmap decisions.
  • Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and contribute substantively to talent growth across the organization.
  • Drive innovation and continuously evaluate emerging technologies for strategic adoption.
  • Lead the resolution of critical system-level production issues that require deep architectural insight.
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • Ten or more years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Proven expertise designing distributed, high-scale systems in production.
  • Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages.
  • Deep understanding of data modeling, system optimization, and performance tuning.
  • Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives across multiple business units.
  • Strong expertise in reliability engineering and distributed architectures.
  • Demonstrated leadership in architectural decision-making at enterprise scale.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Public technical contributions (papers, talks, OSS leadership).
  • Experience driving multi-year transformation programs.
  • Familiarity with FinOps and large-scale cost optimization.
  • Exposure to regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government).
  • Advanced degree or equivalent industry recognition.

How to Apply
Would you like to know more about this opportunity?
For immediate consideration, please send your resume to View email address on click.appcast.io
Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at
We recognize that our people are our strength, and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.
We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
Position offered by “No Fee Agency.”

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.

BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.

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