Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WAJobPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Principal Software Engineer oversees architecture for critical, high-impact systems and creates strategic roadmaps that account for how related systems will evolve. The role establishes and influences practices for maintainable, reusable code and effective code reviews, writes proof-of-concept code as needed, and may develop code directly. It also maintains live-service operations through rotational on-call support.
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Full job description
Oversees overall system architecture for a critically important and high-impact space such as a connection with deep technical domains or a broad set of products or services at critical junctures (e.g., early in development, urgent time horizon). Creates a strategic roadmap for the system architecture by considering how related systems will evolve in the near future. Ensures architecture design is appropriately authored, documented, and reviewed. Establishes, influences, and ensures policies and procedures for developing extensible, reusable, and maintainable code, identifying and addressing coding issues, and conducting effective code reviews for a critically important and high-impact space such as those with deep technical domains connections or a broad set of products or services at critical junctures (e.g., early in development, urgent time horizon). Writes proof of concept code as needed and may develop code directly as needed. Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 8+ years of experience in developing and shipping system level features in an enterprise production backend server system. 4+ years of experience building and supporting distributed cloud services with production grade. Experience with internals of PostgreSQL or similar Enterprise Database Management system, including Query Processing, Storage Engine and High Availability. Experience building Distributed Systems with strong guarantees. Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers. Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
How this job compares
Set against the 42,033 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Washington median$144–216K/yr1,986 salary ranges
- Washington median$50–73/hr40 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,212 open Software Engineer jobs in Washington and 42,033 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 34,233 postings).
- Education
- 13,962 of the 42,033 open Software Engineer jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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