Principal, Location Services Architect (Remote)

Cotality; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 134,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

11 paid holidays

Parental leave

Health plans

401(k) with match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Cotality in Dallas, TX, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead Location Services, shaping architecture and driving scalable, geospatial systems across the company.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to ensure performance, accuracy, and security, while mentoring engineers and advancing reliability practices.

This role offers a competitive salary range and comprehensive benefits as part of Cotality's commitment to an inclusive, high-impact engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong geospatial concepts: spatial data models, indexing, queries, and data quality.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Java, C++, Python).
• Experience building and operating cloud-native services (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Understanding of relational, NoSQL, time-series, or geospatial databases.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Own architecture for 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.

Skills

Geospatial concepts

Distributed systems design

Java

C++

Python

Cloud-native services

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GIS tooling

Geospatial databases

Job description

Cotality in Dallas, TX, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead Location Services, shaping architecture and driving scalable, geospatial systems across the company.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to ensure performance, accuracy, and security, while mentoring engineers and advancing reliability practices.

This role offers a competitive salary range and comprehensive benefits as part of Cotality's commitment to an inclusive, high-impact engineering culture.