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Principal Software Engineer

$100k - $150k
Full-time

Bright Vision Technologies

Principal Software Engineer - Remote Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. 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 (U.S.) Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2 Salary Range: $100,000–$150,000 Annually Experience Required: 6+ years Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position. 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 or contact us at View phone number on click.appcast.io. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at [ Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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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