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8th Light · 1 day ago

Principal Software Engineer (US-Remote)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$152K/yr - $189K/yr

10+ years exp

8th Light is a technology solutions provider that partners with organizations to solve meaningful challenges and drive sustainable growth. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer who will guide technical direction, solve complex problems, and collaborate with clients to deliver high-quality software solutions. The role involves building trust with clients, advising on architecture, and leading teams while fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture.

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Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Rapidly building trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives

Guiding technical direction, solving complex problems, and demonstrating best practices while remaining deeply engaged within the codebase

Working pragmatically to balance technology choices while delivering high-quality work within deadlines

Advising clients on architecture, scalability and platform evolution, connecting technical decisions to product and business outcomes

Collaborating on systems that involve the full ML lifecycle from data ingestion and preprocessing, to model deployment, integration, and performance monitoring

Driving innovation by proactively surfacing new technical approaches and product solutions

Leading or initiating formal feedback conversations with teams and clients via retrospectives

Clearly articulating and documenting outcomes and driving forward action items

Contributing to the health of your team and 8th Light’s culture by modeling our Values

Designing and managing high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements

Building your network and maintaining relationships with clients and other industry leaders within your domain

Coaching client engineering teams, transferring knowledge and leveling up practices

Influencing client CTOs and executive decisions. Planning and execute technical work that involves stakeholders outside of project boundaries such as across a client's technical organization

Participating in account planning; opportunity identification

Facilitating retrospectives, strategy sessions, and technical deep-dives to improve team and project outcomes

Identifying, mitigating, and resolving blockers to team progress

Contributing to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes

Demonstrating leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development

Bringing depth in testing strategies, observability, fault tolerance, and secure engineering practices

Applying architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and drive clear, documented design rationale

Qualification

PythonJavaJavaScriptAI/ML integrationDevSecOpsMLOpsInfrastructure as CodeData EngineeringTeam mentorshipFeedback facilitationCollaboration

Required

Demonstrated long-term success on high-stakes consulting engagements across multiple language paradigms, stacks, ecosystems, technical environments, and client industries

Built high-quality, maintainable software collaboratively, incrementally, and through an approach tailored towards the unique needs of the clients you've served

Led the development and delivery of production-grade software using a variety of languages and frameworks, including but not limited to: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Scala, R, SQL, and Go

Evaluated and strategically applied AI-assistive development tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality

A track record of understanding, assessing, and embracing new tooling and trends within the software industry

Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered features into products or systems (e.g., recommendation engines, NLP models, computer vision, predictive analytics)

Used context-appropriate automated testing to inform software design choices and catch bugs

Successfully led modernization efforts to align legacy systems with short and long-term business needs

Remedied architecture-level concerns such as scalability, security, reliability, and performance

Facilitated alignment and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders to move initiatives forward in the face of ambiguity and complexity while balancing technical considerations with product and user needs

Provided mentorship and team support at scale, while sharing knowledge and improving team practices

Actively sought out and effectively given feedback

Collaboratively led stakeholders to balance technical considerations with product and user needs