Senior Principal Software Engineer

Trustwell is a rapidly growing tech firm on a mission to change the food industry. They are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to serve as a core technical architect for a microservices-based SaaS platform, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve the architecture of a distributed microservices
• Design systems that scale reliably under increasing load with strong performance, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency
• Lead architectural reviews and technical design discussions across teams
• Identify performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scaling constraints, and drive solutions to address them
• Define architectural standards and patterns for service communication, data access, messaging, and horizontal scaling
• Guide modernization and refactoring efforts to reduce technical debt and improve system resilience
• Architect and optimize integrations with third-party services (e.g., messaging, communications, email, and external APIs)
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to balance feature delivery with platform health and scalability
• Establish best practices for observability, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and load testing
• Act as a technical mentor and trusted advisor, helping engineers grow while promoting pragmatic, high-quality engineering
• Other duties as required

Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant work in distributed systems and microservices
• Strong hands-on experience building production services
• Deep experience designing systems for high throughput, low latency, and high availability
• Experience with NoSQL and relational databases
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, caching, and data access strategies
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and scaling patterns (including serverless and managed services)
• Experience with streaming or messaging platforms
• Familiarity integrating and operating systems with external services at scale (communications, notifications, APIs, etc.)
• Experience working with legacy frontend frameworks and guiding modernization efforts
• Strong architectural judgment with the ability to weigh trade-offs clearly
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, approachable working style
• Production experience building Golang-based services in distributed environments
• Experience with TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks such as Angular or Vue.js
• Experience architecting, scaling, and operating systems on AWS
• Experience designing and developing against MongoDB, including event-driven patterns such as Change Streams
• Experience building or operating streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka (including Confluent)
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without limitation
• Experience handling high-throughput or high-availability systems
• Familiarity with implementing load, stress, and scale testing, along with performance-tuning tools
• Strong background in observability, including metrics, logging, and tracing, to support performance analysis
• Experience optimizing cloud cost alongside performance and scalability