Principal Software Engineer

🕒 3 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $151.5k - $220.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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8th Light

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Marketing • Software

8th Light is a software design and development company that specializes in creating tailored software solutions and AI applications for businesses. They emphasize collaboration with clients to align software strategies with business goals, ensuring the successful launch of products and services. In addition to custom software development, 8th Light provides consulting and support for scaling enterprise systems and integrating advanced AI technologies to address complex challenges.

📋 Description

• Work with a variety of clients, typically one to two in a year • Rapidly build trust with clients by demonstrating technical expertise and understanding their domain and objectives • Drive platform engineering work at the client level, connecting long-term technical vision to shipped outcomes • Lead platform strategy and delivery across diverse platform types • Balance technology choices pragmatically while delivering high-quality work within deadlines • Advise clients on architecture, scalability, and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes • Collaborate on systems spanning the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring • Drive innovation by surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions • Lead or initiate formal feedback conversations through retrospectives • Articulate and document outcomes and drive action items forward • Contribute to team and company culture by modeling company values • Design and manage high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements • Build networks and maintain relationships with clients and industry leaders • Coach client engineering teams, transfer knowledge, and improve practices • Influence client CTOs and executive decisions • Plan and execute technical work involving stakeholders across a client's technical organization • Partner with account teams on planning, opportunity identification, stakeholder relationships, and pre-sales scope shaping • Facilitate retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives • Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers to team progress • Mentor, lead or design workshops, represent 8th Light in the tech community, and support hiring processes • Demonstrate leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development • Apply testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, secure engineering practices, and architectural patterns

🎯 Requirements

• Long-term repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 10+ years • Deep consulting acumen, technical expertise, and product thinking • Experience building and shipping production-grade platforms, reusable foundations, tools, infrastructure, and workflows • Experience taking AI and agentic systems from prototype to production, including infrastructure, authentication, and observability • Experience delivering high-stakes consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, and client industries • Experience leading production-grade software delivery using Java, C#/.NET, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Go, Ruby, Scala, R, and SQL • Experience experimenting with AI development tools and translating experimentation into faster, higher-quality delivery • Track record of understanding, assessing, and embracing new software-industry tooling and trends • Experience building or integrating AI/ML features, including recommendation engines, NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics, RAG pipelines, and agents • Experience leading modernization and replatforming efforts • Experience solving architecture-level problems involving scalability, security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and observability • Experience facilitating alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders • Experience providing mentorship and team support at scale • Preferred experience in platform engineering, data engineering, Databricks, production agentic systems, RAG pipelines, vector search, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, n8n, DevSecOps, DevOps, MLOps, and Infrastructure as Code

🏖️ Benefits

• Robust L&D program featuring unlimited access to thousands of books, courses, and expert-led training on the O'Reilly learning platform • Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development • Coworking support for our global team • Flexible PTO • 12 weeks of new parent leave available for eligible employees • Access to coworking spaces for team members outside hub cities