Principal Software Engineer
$170,000–$170,000 year
Hybrid · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Job Summary
Principal Software Engineer at Stable Kernel responsible for designing and delivering scalable backend services in Go for world-class clients. The role emphasizes architecture decisions, codebase health, and cross-functional collaboration, with leadership responsibilities including mentoring others, guiding roadmaps, and aligning technical work with strategic outcomes. Key focus areas include Go backend design, AWS cloud services, IaC (Pulumi/Terraform), PostgreSQL optimization, comprehensive automated testing across CI/CD pipelines, performance/load testing, and maintaining high test coverage while driving improvements in developer productivity and stakeholder value.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of backend development experience
- Degree in Computer Science or relevant field or equivalent experience
- Extensive experience with Go (Golang) for backend services
- Experience with AWS cloud services
- Experience with PostgreSQL schemas and performance tuning
- Experience with Terraform or Pulumi and Infrastructure as Code
- Strong experience in designing scalable backend systems with high test coverage (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and testing infrastructures (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins)
- Ability to mentor and lead teams, influence roadmaps, and drive architectural decisions
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