CargoSprint ยท 5 days ago
Principal Engineer, Backend Architecture and Reliability (.NET or Java)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expCargoSprint is a company dedicated to transforming the cargo industry through innovative digital solutions. The Principal Engineer role focuses on enhancing the stability and reliability of backend systems, leading modernization efforts, and collaborating with engineering teams to improve overall system performance.
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Responsibilities
Lead architecture and implementation to improve stability and reliability across core backend systems
Drive modernization: reduce legacy debt, simplify services, and migrate to scalable patterns with minimal customer impact
Establish reliability guardrails: service ownership, operational runbooks, and measurable targets for availability and performance
Partner with DevOps/SRE and application teams to improve observability, incident response, and postmortem follow-through
Identify bottlenecks and failure modes; deliver measurable improvements in latency, throughput, and availability
Create reusable patterns and reference implementations (service templates, resilience patterns, data access patterns)
Mentor senior engineers and tech leads; raise standards through design docs, reviews, and coaching
Qualification
Required
10+ years building production backend systems; demonstrated impact at Staff/Principal scope
Deep experience in .NET (C#) and/or Java service ecosystems, including performance tuning and production operations
Proven track record improving reliability (incident reduction, MTTR improvement, uptime)
Strong experience modernizing legacy systems: incremental migrations, deprecation plans, and risk-managed rollouts
Distributed systems fundamentals and resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, idempotency)
Strong operational discipline: logs/metrics/traces, alerting strategy, and root cause analysis
Clear communicator who can align multiple teams and drive decisions
Preferred
Payments, billing, invoicing, or other high-volume transactional domains
Event-driven architecture experience (queues/streams; async workflows)
Cloud cost and performance optimization experience at scale
Logistics, cargo, or supply chain experience
Spanish language proficiency
Benefits
Health and Wellness: Medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family
Future-Ready: 401(k) with company match
Work Life Balance: Generous flexible PTO program and paid holidays
Grow With Us: Professional development opportunities
Company
CargoSprint
CargoSprint focused in enhancing human experience in the cargo industry, through digital solutions.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2024-11-12Acquired
Leadership Team
Caro Krissman
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
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