Principal Software Development Consultant

Urgent Requirement (Immediate Joiners preferred)

Principal Software Development Consultant (Cloud-Native & High-Performance Systems)

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time

Level: Principal Engineer / Consultant

Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, including recent hands-on experience

Role Summary

Were hiring a Principal Software Development Consultant who leads by examplethrough code, deep technical problem-solving, and the ability to take complex systems from design to production. This is a role for engineers who are still deeply embedded in writing software and shipping solutions, not just guiding from the sidelines.

You will work with us to deliver cloud-native applications and performance-critical systems, applying modern practices in infrastructure, code, and design, with a strong emphasis on hands-on implementation. While your career has likely spanned many technologies, we are particularly interested in recent or production-level experience with Rust, as well as a history of building with compiled languages for scale, reliability, and performance.

What Youll Do

Design and implement complex backend systems that are cloud-native, scalable, and observable

• Write production-grade code in Rust (or other compiled languages like Go, C++, or Java with a performance focus)
• Lead by example: drive engineering practices through code reviews, prototyping, pair programming, and mentorship
• Tackle infrastructure challenges, containerized workloads, autoscaling setups, and deployment pipelines hands-on
• Translate high-level goals into practical implementation plans and technical executionnot just architectural slides
• Dig into performance tuning, low-level optimizations, and concurrency challenges when needed
• Collaborate directly with client engineering teams to ship maintainable, evolvable systems under real-world constraints

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience, with a focus on backend, systems, or platform engineering
• Demonstrated experience building cloud-native systemsideally with Kubernetes, containers, and distributed APIs
• Hands-on expertise in compiled languages, especially Rust (production experience preferred), and optionally Go, C++, or high-performance Java
• Deep comfort working with infrastructure (e.g., Linux internals, networking, observability tooling, deployment pipelines)
• Familiarity with modern cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD systems, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi
• Track record of taking ownership of complex systems from design to deployment, often writing the core logic yourself
• Comfortable jumping into unfamiliar codebases and refactoring, debugging, or extending them confidently

Bonus Experience

• Experience with memory-safe systems, async runtimes (Tokio, etc.), and zero-cost abstractions
• Deep-dive performance work: profiling, instrumentation, low-latency systems
• Contributions to open-source projects, especially in Rust or infrastructure-related tooling
• Knowledge of advanced concurrency patterns, distributed coordination, or kernel-level programming

Mindset & Approach

• You're a builder: you default to writing and improving code, not delegating the hard parts
• You lead through execution, mentorship, and technical clarity—not just process or policy
• You are technology-agnostic, but deeply curious and opinionated when needed
• You work well under ambiguity, enjoy solving hard technical problems, and are comfortable taking systems apart to understand how they really work