Principal Engineer, Cloud Software

Aptiora; United States; Remote; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptiora is seeking a Principal Engineer, Cloud Software in the United States to provide technical direction and hands-on engineering for connected products and cloud platforms. You will own architecture for scalable, secure, production-grade systems across embedded devices, gateways, and cloud services.

The role requires extensive backend and API design skills, experience with event-driven architectures, and leading architectural decisions that balance performance, cost, and customer impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software and cloud engineering experience.
• Architecture ownership for IoT/connected devices or high-volume data platforms.
• Deep AWS or comparable cloud experience (compute, containers, networking, databases, IaC).
• Strong backend engineering and API design skills.
• Experience with event-driven and distributed systems, data ingestion, time-series data.
• CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, secure delivery at scale.
• Ability to tie architecture decisions to delivery, costs, and customer impact.
• Effective communication, systems thinking, and cross-team influence.
• Architecture spanning embedded devices to cloud apps and analytics.
• Experience with regulated or quality-controlled systems and data governance.
• Platform modernization and global delivery models.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Backend engineering

API design

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Observability

Security & compliance

Data modeling

Tools

AWS

Job description

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About the role

: $120,000+ annually (actual compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and geographic location.)

What the employer asks for

• Typically 10 or more years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect for production systems.
• Demonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform.
• Deep experience with AWS or a comparable public cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, identity and access, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code.
• Strong backend engineering and API design skills, with hands‑on proficiency in at least one modern backend language.
• Experience with event driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale.
• Ability to connect architecture decisions to delivery effort, operational cost, product economics, and customer impact.
• Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to lead through influence across teams and external partners.
• Architecture spanning embedded devices or firmware, cellular or gateway connectivity, cloud ingestion, web or mobile applications, and analytics.
• Regulated, validated, or quality controlled systems with requirements for data access, retention, privacy, auditability, and change control.
• Platform modernization, microservice simplification, globally distributed teams, or blended employee and contractor delivery models.
• Professional level cloud certification or equivalent practical expertise.

Conditions and benefits stated

• $120,000+ annually (actual compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and geographic location.) Overview The Principal Engineer, Cloud Software provides technical direction and hands‑on engineering for LI-COR Environmental's connected products and cloud platforms.

Not stated in the posting

• Day-to-day responsibilities
• Required languages

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