Principal Software Engineer – Desktop and Mobile Applications

🔥 3 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $134.3k - $196.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💻 Application Engineer

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HARMAN International

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1980

🚘 Automotive

🔧 Hardware

🤝 B2B

Automotive • Hardware • B2B

HARMAN International is a global technology company that designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers and enterprises. The company is best known for audio and infotainment brands (e. g. , JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG) and for providing connected car systems, automotive electronics and professional audio solutions. HARMAN operates across product design, hardware manufacturing and integrated software/systems for automotive and commercial customers.

📋 Description

• Architect, develop and maintain high-performance desktop and mobile applications for HiFi audio enthusiasts across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux, driving technical direction and ensuring seamless cross-platform experiences. • Lead cross-platform development initiatives using primarily C# and .NET-based technologies, applying deep expertise to improve scalability, maintainability, and long-term product evolution. • Design and optimize complex systems that manage audio content, music metadata, and low-latency audio streaming across local networks, leveraging your mastery of network protocols and concurrency models to deliver robust solutions. • Serve as a technical leader and mentor, guiding team members in best practices for architecture, performance profiling, and troubleshooting, while raising the overall technical bar. • Proactively identify and address risks in project delivery, communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders, and influence decisions to align engineering efforts with business goals. • Use modern AI-assisted development workflows as part of your day-to-day engineering practice, including tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and similar agentic coding assistants to accelerate implementation, explore solutions, generate tests, review code, and improve developer productivity. • Drive innovation in audio streaming and system architecture, recommending and implementing advanced solutions that enhance user experience, performance, and reliability.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience owning end-to-end delivery of complex projects. • Extensive experience with C# and .NET based technologies. • Strong systems software understanding of data storage, processing, memory management, filesystems, networking, and concurrency. • Sound understanding of network protocols and cross-platform development (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux). • Experience with automated pipelines for continuous build and integration systems (CI/CD). • Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools in real software engineering workflows. • Familiarization with containerization and virtualization technologies (Docker, VMware, HyperV, etc) and packaging software for these environments. • Curiosity and practical interest in how AI can improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, and developer workflows

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location • Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.) • Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University • Competitive wellness benefits • Tuition reimbursement • “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program • An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development