Part-Time Principal Software Engineer — Kubernetes & Cloud

CloudFirst Corp; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 135,000 - 203,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor

Benefits plan

Growth opportunities

Job summary

CloudFirst Corp in Mesa, AZ is hiring a Principal Software Engineer on a part-time schedule. The role emphasizes improving Kubernetes documentation and contributing strategic tech leadership. You will work with telemetry dashboards, fix user-reported bugs, and collaborate across QA and engineering teams to accelerate delivery.

The position offers mentorship, a benefits plan, and room to grow PostgreSQL and Emotional Intelligence skills along with a growing user base.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with modern software development and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Swift programming skills with ability to learn quickly.
• High emotional intelligence and clear written communication.

Responsibilities

• Pull telemetry into dashboards used by CloudFirst Corp leadership.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix user- and monitor-driven bugs.
• Collaborate with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions.
• Ship Terraform experiments quickly and iterate on what works.
• Automate manual communications to reduce engineering hours.
• Collaborate with users in Mesa to identify needs for the Linux tool.

Skills

Swift

CI/CD

Emotional Intelligence

Written communication

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

CloudFirst Corp in Mesa, AZ is hiring a Principal Software Engineer on a part-time schedule. The role emphasizes improving Kubernetes documentation and contributing strategic tech leadership. You will work with telemetry dashboards, fix user-reported bugs, and collaborate across QA and engineering teams to accelerate delivery.

The position offers mentorship, a benefits plan, and room to grow PostgreSQL and Emotional Intelligence skills along with a growing user base.