Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Principal Software Engineer - Media Activation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and development of a 0-1 product, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and high throughput
• Design and deliver low-latency services and APIs for real-time media activation workloads
• Drive critical platform features from design through implementation, testing, rollout, and adoption

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of professional software development experience, with expertise in Go or a comparable high-performance language (e.g. Java, Rust)
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure) for designing and operating production workloads
• Proven track record of delivering distributed, high-performance, and highly reliable backend systems that operate at scale
• Expertise in API design and scaling (RESTful, gRPC, Thrift), including data modeling, error handling, performance optimization, and security best practices
• Experience leading architecture and technical direction across multiple teams or product areas