Principal Geospatial Architect - Location Services

CoreLogic; United States; Remote; USD 134,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off and holidays

Parental leave

Comprehensive health benefits

401(k) with company match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Cotality is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for our Location Services team. You will shape architecture, drive cross-team strategy, and ensure scalable, reliable geospatial systems across the company.

The role partners with engineering leaders, product teams, and stakeholders to align technical outcomes with business priorities, across a global organization. This is a senior, impact-driven position with emphasis on observability and reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with senior technical leadership.
• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in geospatial concepts.
• Proficiency in backend languages (e.g., Java, C++, Python).
• Experience building and operating cloud-native services (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Strong understanding of relational, NoSQL, time-series, or geospatial databases.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills for complex trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve architecture of core Location Services and geospatial capabilities.
• Lead design for scalable, low-latency, highly available location-based services.
• Define standards for geospatial data modeling, querying, and processing.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies and patterns with material benefit.
• Serve as technical owner for critical geospatial components and services.
• Guide teams through complex initiatives spanning multiple services.
• Ensure performance, accuracy, reliability, and security.

Skills

Senior leadership

Distributed systems

Geospatial concepts

Backend languages

Cloud-native services

Data storage technologies

Cross-team influence

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Cotality is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for our Location Services team. You will shape architecture, drive cross-team strategy, and ensure scalable, reliable geospatial systems across the company.

The role partners with engineering leaders, product teams, and stakeholders to align technical outcomes with business priorities, across a global organization. This is a senior, impact-driven position with emphasis on observability and reliability.