Overview
At CloudFactory, we are a mission-driven team passionate about unlocking the potential of AI to transform the world. By combining advanced technology with a global network of talented people, we make unusable data usable, driving real-world impact at scale.
We are a global community founded on strong relationships and the belief that meaningful work transforms lives. Our commitment to earning, learning, and serving fuels everything we do as we strive to connect one million people to meaningful work and build leaders worth following.
Role Summary
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for our cloud-native platform across multiple teams, ensuring our most critical systems are reliable, secure, and built to scale. You will partner with Product, engineering leadership, and clients to shape architectural strategy, resolve the highest-stakes technical trade-offs, and mentor senior engineers across the organization.
Responsibilities
- •Set technical direction and design standards for distributed, cloud-native systems across multiple teams
- •Own the reliability, performance, and security posture of the most critical production systems, primarily in Go, at organizational scale
- •Drive the evolution of CI/CD, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code practices across the wider engineering organization
- •Define and uphold organization-wide standards for reliability, security, and observability
- •Lead high-stakes architectural decisions and technical debt strategy that shape multi-quarter roadmaps
- •Serve as the senior technical voice in complex client engagements, designing solutions and proofs-of-concept for the most demanding integrations
- •Mentor senior and mid-level engineers across teams through code reviews, design docs, and organization-wide technical guidance
Required Skills and Experience
- •7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating complex, distributed software systems at scale
- •Deep mastery of Go (Golang), with a track record of setting technical standards for idiomatic, concurrent, and performant code across teams
- •Expert-level cloud-native proficiency with Kubernetes and Terraform/CloudFormation, including setting standards at an organizational level
- •Deep expertise in AWS or GCP managed services, networking, and cloud security at scale
- •Strong track record in distributed systems architecture, including microservices, asynchronous messaging, and data consistency
- •Extensive experience with CI/CD automation and observability stacks such as New Relic, Prometheus, or ELK
- •Proven ability to lead complex client-facing technical conversations and translate roadmaps for non-technical stakeholders
- •Strong track record mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture across teams
Nice-to-Have Skills
- •Experience working with LLMs, prompt engineering, model evaluation pipelines, and techniques for improving model quality and reliability
Tech Stack
- •Frontend: JavaScript, React, TypeScript
- •Backend: Go, Python, Ruby on Rails
- •Databases: DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Postgres
- •Deployment: GitHub Actions
- •Observability: New Relic, Grafana
- •Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure
Education
- •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
- •Market competitive salary
- •Quarterly variable compensation
- •Hybrid working model
- •Comprehensive medical cover
- •Group life insurance
- •Personal development and growth opportunities