Principal Software Engineer (APC)
$277,000–$390,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end definition, design, and implementation of control plane and data plane services for a cloud-agnostic platform that provisions Apache Airflow instances on-premises. Architect an extensible API framework ensuring backward compatibility while driving telemetry design for metrics, logs, and traces within isolated, zero-egress environments. Lead the engineering team in defining execution roadmaps and conducting design reviews to foster operational excellence across private clouds, bare-metal, and air-gapped networks. Translate complex infrastructure needs into actionable RFCs and engage with executive stakeholders to align product strategy with enterprise requirements.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Staff, Senior Staff, or Principal level within an enterprise infrastructure, database-as-a-service (DBaaS), or private cloud organization
- Proven success building production-grade infrastructure control planes
- Deep understanding of API design principles
- Practical experience designing and implementing infrastructure observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
- Solid operational knowledge and architectural understanding of container orchestration platforms, specifically Kubernetes
- Practical experience building custom Kubernetes Operators (CRDs), managing Helm deployments, and working with the Kubernetes API
- Hands-on systems design expertise involving isolated environments across multiple public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), Red Hat OpenShift enterprise deployments, and bare-metal on-premise infrastructure
- Expert-level software development skills (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript)
- Deep knowledge of distributed state stores (such as Etcd, Consul, or PostgreSQL), concurrency, and network security patterns
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills
- Proven ability to author crisp, high-density technical 'one-pagers' and actionable RFCs
- Ability to drive fast organizational alignment by distilling complex systems choices into brief, highly readable documents
- Ability to present confidently to executive leadership
- Ability to engage deeply with strategic enterprise clients to unearth their core infrastructure requirements
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