Stable Kernel · 8 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $170K/yr
10+ years expStable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises. The Principal Software Engineer plays an essential role in developing and delivering innovative initiatives for clients, collaborating with teams to influence product roadmaps and ensuring codebase health and best practices are maintained.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Consumer SoftwareData IntegrationData VisualizationEnterprise SoftwareMachine LearningMobile AppsMobile PaymentsSoftware EngineeringUsability Testing
No H1B
Responsibilities
Designing and implementing exemplary solutions regarding scalability and cost-effectiveness by making trade-offs between opportunity and complexity
Setting standards for codebase health and promoting best practices throughout the organization
Clarifying strategic outcomes and influencing roadmaps and projects
Identifying, suggesting, and driving improvements in your customers' end-to-end experience
Aiding in estimating work for new business with more unknowns and coaching others in estimation best practices
Coordinating across the entire company
Influencing the entire organization to make changes to support your work
Advising teams across the company
Designing a long-term roadmap with no direction
Translating customer and business needs and strategic direction into projects and consistently simplifying high-complexity situations
Coaching and mentoring others in tackling ambiguity
Decomposing strategic direction into projects: Planning, communicating, and executing to solve our most challenging problems
Ensuring alignment with long-term objectives, fostering a culture of informed decision-making and innovation
Anticipating most risks and driving simplification to mitigate risks ahead of time
Escalating issues while solving them in parallel ensuring others are informed
Proposing new organization-level processes to improve key areas such as team throughput, employee happiness, or product engagement
Driving best practices across the organization
Exhibiting exceptional mentoring abilities and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement by identifying and nurturing potential in others, providing strategic guidance, helping develop career paths for team members
Leading projects: Setting the strategic direction for projects or areas of technology, leading multiple project teams, and influencing decision-making at higher organizational levels
Exhibiting strong capabilities in stakeholder management, negotiating, and problem-solving in complex scenarios
Mentoring and developing other leaders within the team, fostering a culture of innovation, and contributing significantly to organizational goals
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience delivering and evolving production systems across diverse technical stacks, platforms, and architectures
Extensive experience serving as a trusted consultant to stakeholders and cross-functional teams, providing expert guidance on backend service design, delivery, and integration
Degree in Computer Science or relevant field or experience
Extensive experience with a wide variety of both frontend and backend languages, and ability to learn new ones with ease. Current stack consists of Typescript, Golang, React and React Native
Has intimate working knowledge of current agentic practices, keeps ahead of the curve of agentic development. This includes but is not limited to Claude Code, OpenCode, Spec-driven-development, and agent orchestrators
Drive cloud architecture strategy on AWS, building secure, scalable, and cost-optimized systems with services such as ECS/Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS/Postgres, S3, CloudWatch, KMS, and IAM; guide teams in adopting cloud-native patterns and operational excellence
Experience driving infrastructure strategy and automation using Pulumi or Terraform, embedding Infrastructure as Code into development workflows and enabling secure, scalable cloud environments
Experience with vector databases (e.g., pg_vector) for similarity search and AI/ML-powered applications
Experience deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications securely and reliably using Kubernetes
Preferred
Familiarity with Go for building performant, scalable backend services in production environments
Benefits
Company-subsidized health, vision, and dental plan premium options beginning on the first day of employment
401k with above-average company matching
Fully paid Group Life, Short and Long Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
Optional Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account participation
Voluntary Life, Critical Illness, and Accident insurance
EAP and Health Advocacy program available at no cost to employees and their dependents
$3000+ annual industry educational budget
Paid time off and paid holidays Access to Perks at Work program featuring a variety of discounted products and services
Company
Stable Kernel
Stable Kernel specializes in custom software, data architecture, and AI solutions for foodservice enterprises
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Jason Russell
CEO/Co-Founder
Jami Sieder
Chief People & Culture Officer
Recent News
2025-07-13
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