Principal Software Engineer

Santa Clara, California
Job TypeDirect Hire

Principal Software Engineer

🚀 Step into a high-impact Principal Software Engineer opportunity with a confidential client, where you will help drive meaningful results across Banking / Lending/ Financial Services,Information Technology. This role offers the chance to make a visible contribution in Santa Clara, California, USA while supporting ambitious technical and operational goals.

Your Key Responsibilities

✅ Collaborate with product engineering teams to develop and deploy applications using Gitlab, Terraform, AWS services and methodologies
✅ Analyze existing on-prem application architecture and develop cloud compatible solutions to migrate applications
✅ Ability to develop applications and deploy in AWS cloud in multi-region, multi-AZ distributed systems
✅ Envision, Design and Build end-to-end Observability for Applications running on AWS Platform
✅ Ability to leverage Terraform and contribute new Terraform templates for reuse across organization
✅ Ensure security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions
✅ Develop and migrate mission critical services and build automation to proactively detect and prevent re-occurrences

What You Bring to the Role

🔹 Relevant technical degree, diploma, or equivalent hands-on industry experience.
🔹 Demonstrated experience aligned to the role, ideally in the 6-8 year range.
🔹 Practical capability in Banking/ Insurance/ Financial & Investment Services, Information Technology / Software and related tools or methods.
🔹 Strong communication, ownership, and problem-solving ability in a production or engineering setting.
🔹 Experience working in Banking / Lending/ Financial Services,Information Technology or a closely related technical environment is preferred.
🔹 Comfort working cross-functionally with operations, quality, vendors, and stakeholders.
🔹 A steady, detail-oriented approach with sound judgment and follow-through.

What's In It For You

💰 top tier compensation and benefits, with source-aligned pay details of 170000-210000 US Dollars per annual salary.

🏡 A clear on-site opportunity with defined business impact and the chance to step into meaningful ownership quickly.

🌎 A strong platform for career growth, technical ownership, and long-term professional development.

ADVANCE YOUR ENGINEERING CAREER TODAY

RECRUITING TOP ENGINEERS SINCE 1997

Our company is called Top Engineer. It does not say Average Engineer. It means we work with the Top 1% of engineering talent.

Do you believe you have what it takes?

If so, why do you believe that?

What does that even mean to you?

Be prepared to answer these questions and more when you reach out to me.

Serious inquiries only, please. https://www.topengineer.us

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