Principal Software Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Software Engineer based in Brazil.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on shaping the architecture and engineering standards of a modern cloud-based SaaS platform.
You will act as a technical authority, guiding complex solution design across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, frontend architecture, and cloud technologies.
The role combines deep hands-on engineering with mentorship, technical decision-making, and cross-functional influence.
You will help engineering teams build scalable, secure, highly available, maintainable, and cost-effective solutions.
Working closely with Product, QA, DevOps, Security, and engineering leadership, you will raise technical standards across the platform.
You will also tackle complex production challenges, drive automation and secure development practices, and contribute to high-impact initiatives.
The environment is agile, global, and fast-paced, making this an opportunity to influence both technology direction and engineering culture.

Accountabilities:

• Technical architecture: Define, guide, and review technical solutions for complex platform capabilities, ensuring scalability, security, maintainability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Technical leadership: Serve as a senior technical authority for the cloud platform, influencing engineers, Team Leads, Technical Managers, architects, QA, DevOps, and other technical stakeholders on long-term engineering decisions.
• Architecture evolution: Lead the design and evolution of modern architecture patterns, including microservices, event-driven architecture, CQRS, BFF, REST APIs, frontend architecture, and cloud-native solutions.
• Engineering mentorship: Mentor and coach engineers across different experience levels, strengthening their capabilities in software design, coding, debugging, testing, architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Code and design quality: Review critical designs, pull requests, and implementation approaches to promote clean code, robust architecture, strong performance, maintainability, and compliance with security standards.
• Cross-functional delivery: Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, Security, and Cloud Operations teams to ensure solutions are delivered with appropriate automation, observability, CI/CD readiness, testing, and secure-by-default practices.
• Engineering standards: Promote consistent practices across teams covering APIs, micro frontends, automated testing, CI/CD, source control, documentation, branching strategies, and the software development lifecycle.
• Troubleshooting: Support the investigation and resolution of complex production and platform issues, identifying root causes and driving sustainable technical solutions.
• Hands-on engineering: Contribute directly to high-impact development initiatives when advanced technical expertise, architectural guidance, or cross-team coordination is required.
• Technical communication: Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for engineers, technical leaders, Product stakeholders, and business leadership.
• Technical decision-making: Navigate ambiguity and difficult architectural decisions while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term platform scalability and sustainability.

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Software engineering experience: Extensive professional software development experience, including strong hands-on expertise across backend engineering, frontend development, cloud platforms, and distributed systems.
• Backend development: Strong experience with C# and the .NET ecosystem, REST APIs, and scalable service-oriented or microservices-based applications.
• Frontend development: Strong experience with modern frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or comparable frameworks.
• Architecture: Deep knowledge of software architecture, design principles, and patterns, including SOLID, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), microservices, event sourcing, CQRS, and BFF.
• Databases: Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases, such as SQL Server, Cosmos DB, MongoDB, or comparable technologies.
• Cloud & Azure: Experience with Azure services and infrastructure, including Azure DevOps deployment and cloud-native application development.
• DevOps & DevSecOps: Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, GitHub Advanced Security, SAST, SCA, DAST, and secure software development practices.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform, Bicep, or comparable Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Quality engineering: Experience with automated and unit testing, API testing, test-driven development, performance testing, and automation frameworks.
• Source control: Strong understanding of SCM practices, including branching strategies, code reviews, and code merges.
• Engineering excellence: Understanding of high availability, scalability, performance optimization, observability, and secure software development.
• Problem-solving: Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, analytical reasoning, decision-making, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Technical influence: Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, make difficult technical decisions, and provide clear recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.
• Agile environment: Experience working within Agile, full-stack, fast-paced engineering teams focused on delivering high-quality software products.
• Communication: Strong spoken and written English skills for effective collaboration in a global environment.
• Adaptability: Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations, adapt to changing priorities, and balance short-term delivery with long-term technical outcomes.

Benefits:

• Permanent full-time employment (CLT) with a 42-hour work week.
• 100% remote work option from Brazil.
• Hybrid work option for professionals residing in Serra Gaúcha.
• Compensation in Brazilian Real (BRL).
• Opportunity to work on a modern cloud-based SaaS platform serving a global customer base.
• Exposure to Azure, .NET, microservices, distributed systems, DevOps, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and modern frontend technologies.
• Senior-level opportunity to influence architecture, engineering standards, technical strategy, and platform evolution.
• Significant opportunities for technical mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and professional growth.
• Work within an Agile and globally distributed engineering environment.
• High-impact role combining hands-on development with technical leadership and architectural decision-making.

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