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Job Description:
Role Overview
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for our Location Services team. This role is responsible for shaping architecture, driving cross‑team technical strategy, and ensuring the scalability, correctness, and operational excellence of location‑based systems across the company.
The Principal Engineer operates with broad scope and influence, partnering closely with engineering leaders, product teams, and stakeholders to align technical outcomes with business priorities.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Own and evolve the architecture of core Location Services and geospatial capabilities
Lead system design for highly scalable, low‑latency, and highly available location‑based services
Define standards and best practices for geospatial data modeling, querying, and processing
Evaluate and introduce new technologies, patterns, and frameworks where they provide material benefit
Platform Ownership & Delivery
Serve as technical owner for critical geospatial components and services
Guide teams through complex technical initiatives spanning multiple services or domains
Ensure solutions meet requirements for performance, accuracy, reliability, and security
Actively influence roadmap direction through technical insight and risk assessment
Cross‑Team Influence
Partner with product, data, and infrastructure teams to align technical direction with business goals
Provide technical insights to multiple engineering teams consuming Location Services
Resolve cross‑cutting technical issues and reduce architectural fragmentation
Operational Excellence
Drive improvements in observability, resilience, and fault tolerance for geospatial systems
Lead root‑cause analysis for significant production issues and ensure long‑term corrective action
Champion automation, testing strategies, and reliability engineering practices
Mentorship & Engineering Culture
Mentor senior and mid‑level engineers, strengthening overall technical capability
Set a high bar for engineering rigor, system design quality, and documentation
Act as a role model for pragmatic decision‑making and long‑term systems thinking
Job Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior technical leadership
Deep experience designing and operating large‑scale distributed systems
Strong expertise in geospatial concepts , such as:
Spatial data models and indexing
Geospatial queries, transformations, and projections
Location accuracy, precision, and data quality considerations
Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages (e.g., Java, C++, Python)
Experience building and operating cloud‑native services (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure)
Strong understanding of data storage technologies (relational, NoSQL, time‑series, or geospatial databases)
Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct…