Principal Software Engineer, Microservices & Integration Platform

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and evolution of our enterprise Microservices and Integration Platforms. This role will serve as a technical leader responsible for establishing architecture standards, guiding engineering teams, and delivering scalable, resilient, and secure platform capabilities that power our digital and enterprise ecosystem.

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, API management, event-driven design, and enterprise integrations with a passion for mentoring engineers and driving engineering excellence. This position will play a key role in enabling business agility, accelerating product delivery, and modernizing enterprise systems through reusable platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Define and drive the strategic roadmap for microservices, APIs, integration platforms, and event-driven architectures.
• Lead architecture reviews and establish enterprise-wide engineering standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Design highly scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems supporting high transaction volumes and business-critical workloads.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with business and technology strategies.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform improvements that enhance scalability, performance, and developer experience.

Platform Engineering

• Architect and evolve reusable platform services that accelerate application development and deployment.
• Drive standardization of service development frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security controls, and deployment patterns.
• Establish self-service capabilities for engineering teams to simplify onboarding and service lifecycle management.
• Champion platform reliability, resiliency, availability, and performance objectives.

Microservices Development

• Lead the design and development of cloud-native microservices using domain-driven design and modern architectural patterns.
• Establish standards for service decomposition, API design, service communication, fault tolerance, and resiliency.
• Guide teams on implementation of scalable synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Drive modernization of monolithic applications into loosely coupled microservices architectures.

Integration & Event-Driven Architecture

• Design and govern enterprise integration strategies across internal and external systems.
• Lead implementation of API-first architectures and event-driven solutions leveraging messaging and streaming technologies.
• Build scalable integration patterns using APIs, event brokers, service meshes, and cloud integration services.
• Ensure reliable, secure, and observable data exchange across business domains.

Engineering Excellence

• Mentor senior engineers and architects across multiple product teams.
• Establish coding standards, architecture governance, design reviews, and operational best practices.
• Promote DevSecOps principles and site reliability engineering practices.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution for complex production issues.
• Drive adoption of automation, testing, observability, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years designing and delivering distributed systems at scale.
• 3+ years in a Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, or equivalent technical leadership role.
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems design.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Hands-on experience developing solutions using Java, Kotlin, C#, Node.js, or similar modern programming languages.
• Expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, API gateways, and API lifecycle management.
• Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Event Hub, AWS EventBridge, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and implementing DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of security best practices, authentication, authorization, and Zero Trust principles.
• Experience with observability platforms including OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, or similar tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise-scale modernization initiatives.
• Expertise in domain-driven design (DDD), CQRS, event sourcing, and service mesh technologies.
• Experience with Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions
• Experience operating high-volume eCommerce, retail, digital commerce, or omnichannel platforms.
• Knowledge of SRE practices, reliability engineering, and platform operations.
• Cloud certifications or architecture certifications preferred.