Principal Engineer — Azure POS & API Systems

Chuck E. Cheese International; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life

Disability

401(k)

Job summary

CEC Entertainment, LLC, a family-dining and entertainment company known for Chuck E. Cheese and related brands, is seeking a Principal Engineer to design, develop, and maintain business-critical software across a distributed team.

The role spans front-end web work, the development of C# .NET Web APIs, and POS terminal applications on Aloha platforms, with a strong emphasis on Azure services and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or similar degree.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 4 years in C# and the .NET ecosystem spanning both .NET Framework (WinForms/desktop, COM interop).
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs — contracts, authentication (OAuth 2.0 / JWT / API keys), versioning, resilience patterns (retry, circuit breaker, idempotency) and API documentation (OpenAPI).
• 3+ years building and operating solutions on Microsoft Azure: App Service or Azure Functions, API Management, Key Vault, Storage, Azure SQL, messaging (Service Bus/Event Grid), Application Insights, and Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions CI/CD.
• Solid front-end skills with a modern framework (Angular preferred; React), TypeScript, HTML and CSS.
• Working knowledge of SQL Server / Azure SQL data modelling and query performance, and of secure coding practices for environments handling payment card and guest data (PCI DSS awareness; secrets never in code or logs; TLS in transit, encryption at rest).
• Experience in a fast-paced Agile / Scrum, continuous‑integration environment using Jira, Confluence and Git-based workflows (GitHub).
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in and help lead high-performing, globally distributed development teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, demonstrated continuous technical learning, and the ability to build relationships across the organization with a sharp focus on the customer — both internal and external.

Responsibilities

• Front end. Develop and maintain web front ends (Angular or React) for internal tools, portals and configuration consoles that support the POS and loyalty platforms.
• Back-end APIs and Azure services. Develop, deploy and operate C# .NET (Core/.NET 8+) Web APIs, Azure Functions and background services in Microsoft Azure using App Service, API Management, Key Vault, Storage, Service Bus/Event Grid, Azure SQL and Application Insights; own infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines for the services you build.
• POS application development. Design, develop and maintain the C# applications that run on Aloha POS terminals (.NET Framework, WinForms)
• Integrations. Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms and vendors — NCR Voyix, FreedomPay, Affir, Twilio, SEMNOX, Workday and SaaS partners — and with internal platforms such as OmniFun loyalty and the enterprise data hub.
• Engineering quality. Establish and enforce best practices for secure, scalable, resilient and efficient software: code reviews, unit and integration tests, static analysis, secrets management, structured logging and monitoring, and safe rollout and rollback of store-impacting releases (pilot stores before fleet).
• Production support. Provide tier-3 support for POS and API incidents within the team's protected support capacity, perform root-cause analysis, and drive permanent fixes into the backlog; participate in an on-call rotation as required.
• Collaboration and communication. Work with cross-functional teams to ensure code quality, testing, piloting, installation and implementation are executed efficiently; communicate technical options, risks and trade-offs clearly to both technical and business audiences.

Skills

C# / .NET

RESTful APIs design

Front-end frameworks (Angular/React)

Azure cloud services

Agile / Scrum

Distributed teams

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitHub / GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

CEC Entertainment, LLC, a family-dining and entertainment company known for Chuck E. Cheese and related brands, is seeking a Principal Engineer to design, develop, and maintain business-critical software across a distributed team.

The role spans front-end web work, the development of C# .NET Web APIs, and POS terminal applications on Aloha platforms, with a strong emphasis on Azure services and CI/CD practices.