Remote Principal Engineer - Lead Cloud-Native Enterprise Scale

Catalyst Growth Services; Sydney; Remote; AUD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech-focused growth consulting firm is hiring a Principal Engineer to lead technical design and implementation for cloud-native systems. With a focus on enterprise reliability, the ideal candidate has over 10 years in software engineering, strong Python skills, and expertise in AWS and Terraform. This fully remote position offers a chance to work closely with the product team while shaping engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with experience in enterprise platforms.
• Experience in designing and delivering data models and APIs.
• Strong focus on product development and iteration.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design across frontend, backend, and cloud.
• Architect scalable, cloud-native systems.
• Mentor engineers and improve internal tooling.

Skills

Full-stack enterprise platform development

Cloud architecture expertise

DevOps practices

Python backend scaling

Designing distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Terraform

TypeScript

GitHub Actions

Job description

A tech-focused growth consulting firm is hiring a Principal Engineer to lead technical design and implementation for cloud-native systems. With a focus on enterprise reliability, the ideal candidate has over 10 years in software engineering, strong Python skills, and expertise in AWS and Terraform. This fully remote position offers a chance to work closely with the product team while shaping engineering culture.