Principal Software Engineer - SRE

Apply now: Principal Software Engineer – SRE, location is Remote (ET time zone; CT considered if working ET hours), with quarterly onsite travel to the Boston office. The start date is TBD for this permanent position.

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer – SRE

Location-Type: Remote (Eastern Time zone only; Central Time acceptable if working ET hours) — travel into the Boston office once per quarter

Start Date Is: TBD

Duration: Permanent

Compensation Range: $130,000–$185,000

Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Job Description:

• Write and improve production Java code
• Maintain existing Java services
• Build occasional internal applications (Java backend / JavaScript frontend)
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance
• Improve caching, observability, and platform health
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis after incidents
• Prevent future outages through engineering improvements
• Review architecture and influence design decisions
• Partner closely with software engineering teams and mentor other engineers

Requirements:

• 8 years of Software Engineering / SRE experience
• Expert-level Java experience in a production environment
• Experience writing net-new Java code AND maintaining existing Java services
• Distributed systems experience
• Experience with RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar messaging technologies
• MongoDB experience (building applications that interact with it)
• Experience supporting SaaS/cloud applications in production
• Strong debugging and root cause analysis skills
• Experience responding to production outages
• Performance tuning and reliability improvement experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience improving observability, monitoring, and system health