Principal Software Engineer - Scalable Distributed Systems

Arcesiumllc

Stockholms kommun

Hybrid

SEK 950,000 - 1,500,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Arcesium in Stockholm is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own and optimize a large distributed platform. You will drive architectural decisions, design for performance, and ensure system stability in a cloud, Kubernetes, event-driven environment.

You will mentor peers, validate requirements, and partner with product and operations to scale a global platform from our Stockholm base.

Qualifications

Senior-level experience building and operating production software.
Track record architecting, building, and running distributed systems at real scale (cloud, Kubernetes, event-driven).
Strong performance-engineering background: profiling, benchmarking, memory management, concurrency, and tuning under production load.
Ability to articulate architectural trade-offs to engineers and non-engineers.
Strong fundamentals: system design, data structures, concurrency, and API design.
Clear communicator who helps the team grow.

Responsibilities

Own projects end-to-end from requirements to delivery and operation.
Gather requirements and translate into high-level and low-level designs.
Document and review architectural decisions; communicate trade-offs clearly.
Own non-functional attributes: performance, stability, scalability, availability.
Profile production systems, identify bottlenecks, tune latency and throughput.
Mentor teammates and influence decisions.