Great infrastructure automation starts with great infrastructure data.
Principal Software Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Software Engineer
OpsMill
• Own the technical software architecture across our platform ecosystem—Infrahub, and future products—to ensure clean, extensible design that scales gracefully with customer growth • Lead strategic initiatives hands-on, implementing high-impact architectural improvements to our graph database engine, backend services, and core platform components • Drive systematic reduction of technical debt by establishing architectural standards, identifying areas that will create problems at scale, and guiding the team through thoughtful evolution of the codebase • Champion and implement AI-first engineering practices across the team—establishing how we leverage AI in day-to-day development, ensuring our codebase and platform work seamlessly with AI tooling, and designing product capabilities that make it easier for customers to build AI-powered automation on Infrahub • Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, RFC/design doc creation, and mentorship—elevating the entire engineering team's capabilities and decision-making • Collaborate with Product, Head of Engineering, and CTO to anticipate scaling challenges before they arrive, translating business roadmap into technical strategy and ensuring our software architecture enables rather than constrains product innovation • Work closely with engineers through implementation phases, ensuring architectural decisions are properly understood and executed while maintaining high velocity and code quality
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of backend and platform engineering experience, with a track record of building and scaling complex systems that handle real production load
- Expert-level Python proficiency and deep understanding of writing performant, maintainable code in large codebases
- Experience building developer platforms or tools that other engineers build on top of
- Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems, including API design, data consistency patterns, and architectural trade-offs at scale
- Track record of leading significant initiatives or platform architecture design, with examples of improving system scalability, reliability, or developer velocity
- Hands-on software architect mindset—you're equally comfortable writing code, reviewing designs, and mentoring engineers to elevate the entire team's technical capabilities
- Strong conviction about AI-first engineering and eagerness to drive its adoption across the team, transforming how we build software and enabling our customers to leverage AI effectively
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills—you can write clear design docs, present technical strategy to leadership, and collaborate effectively across product, engineering, and customer-facing teams
- Self-directed and effective in remote environments with at least 4 hours of overlap with CET timezone (Europe, UK, or US East Coast locations work well).
Benefits
- The people: Work alongside world-class engineers who've built and scaled automation platforms in production. Daily technical challenges with smart colleagues who push you to grow.
- The product: Shape Infrahub based on real customer needs. Your input directly influences features, integrations, and roadmap priorities.
- The mission: We're making enterprise-grade infrastructure automation accessible to any organization. Open-source at the core, production-ready out of the box. This is a multi-year journey, not a quarterly sprint.
- The impact: You'll work with teams managing some of the world's most complex infrastructure deployments, solving problems that ripple across entire organizations.
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• Own the technical software architecture across our platform ecosystem—Infrahub, and future products—to ensure clean, extensible design that scales gracefully with customer growth • Lead strategic initiatives hands-on, implementing high-impact architectural improvements to our graph database engine, backend services, and core platform components • Drive systematic reduction of technical debt by establishing architectural standards, identifying areas that will create problems at scale, and guiding the team through thoughtful evolution of the codebase • Champion and implement AI-first engineering practices across the team—establishing how we leverage AI in day-to-day development, ensuring our codebase and platform work seamlessly with AI tooling, and designing product capabilities that make it easier for customers to build AI-powered automation on Infrahub • Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, RFC/design doc creation, and mentorship—elevating the entire engineering team's capabilities and decision-making • Collaborate with Product, Head of Engineering, and CTO to anticipate scaling challenges before they arrive, translating business roadmap into technical strategy and ensuring our software architecture enables rather than constrains product innovation • Work closely with engineers through implementation phases, ensuring architectural decisions are properly understood and executed while maintaining high velocity and code quality
• Tackle interesting performance and scalability challenges. • Meticulously refactor bunches of reports decimating code size and run time while preserving results. • Intelligently manage tech debt while simultaneously delivering new features for the business. • Code in SQL and C# (and occasionally js) in a mixed environment (Windows and Linux but mostly Windows) utilizing AWS, SQL Server, Redshift, Mongo, EntityFramework and ASP.NET Core. • Participate in a Kanban/Devops dev process with fluid requirements, weekly scrums, and potentially be on-call w/Pagerduty • Be a proponent for continuous improvement, architecture, clean code, and good systems design
• Tackle interesting performance and scalability challenges. • Meticulously refactor bunches of reports decimating code size and run time while preserving results. • Intelligently manage tech debt while simultaneously delivering new features for the business. • Code in SQL and C# (and occasionally js) in a mixed environment (Windows and Linux but mostly Windows) utilizing AWS, SQL Server, Redshift, Mongo, EntityFramework and ASP.NET Core. • Participate in a Kanban/Devops dev process with fluid requirements, weekly scrums, and potentially be on-call w/Pagerduty • Be a proponent for continuous improvement, architecture, clean code, and good systems design • We use Github for source control and Jira for project management • We review PRs! (usually) and ship often.
• Tackle interesting performance and scalability challenges. • Meticulously refactor bunches of reports decimating code size and run time while preserving results. • Intelligently manage tech debt while simultaneously delivering new features for the business. • Code in SQL and C# (and occasionally js) in a mixed environment (Windows and Linux but mostly Windows) utilizing AWS, SQL Server, Redshift, Mongo, EntityFramework and ASP.NET Core. • Participate in a Kanban/Devops dev process with fluid requirements, weekly scrums, and potentially be on-call w/Pagerduty • Be a proponent for continuous improvement, architecture, clean code, and good systems design • We use Github for source control and Jira for project management • We review PRs! (usually) and ship often.

