Principal Software Engineer

Business Excellence Corp; Canton (OH); On-site; USD 124,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor

Benefits package

Career growth latitude

Job summary

Business Excellence Corp in Canton, Ohio is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to scale infrastructure for millions of concurrent users. You will own data pipelines, REST API, and CI/CD integration, while guiding technical decisions and maintaining high standards.

You’ll work across Flask, Terraform, and GitLab CI to deliver secure, reliable platforms. Expect a role that rewards initiative, offers a mentor, a comprehensive benefits suite, and room to grow into senior leadership within Canton.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with real-world impact.
• Ability to defend recommendations to skeptics.
• Ability to steer technology discussions toward a decision.
• Calm under outcome-focused chaos expected in principal role.

Responsibilities

• Scale data pipelines handling millions of events with Flask.
• Bridge REST API and CI/CD so the platform talks across components.
• Write Terraform integration tests that catch regressions before Canton, OH ships them.
• Own the remote-friendly REST API subsystem that Canton relies on.
• Ship incremental Canton platform improvements on a regular cadence.
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the team.
• Own data integrity across GitLab CI stores so Canton numbers stay correct.
• Ship Flask fixes to Canton, OH customers the same day they report them.

Skills

Judgment

Strategic thinking

Communication

Calm under pressure

Tools

Flask

Terraform

GitLab CI

REST API

Job description

The Principal Software Engineer we hire will help scale our infrastructure from thousands to millions of concurrent users. The whole arrangement rewards initiative — $124,000 - $187,000 to start, technology ownership throughout, and Business Excellence Corp backing every step.

Key Responsibilities

• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Flask
• Bridge REST API and CI/CD so the two halves of Business Excellence Corp's platform finally talk
• Write the Terraform integration tests that catch regressions before Canton, OH ships them
• Own the remote-friendly REST API subsystem that the rest of Business Excellence Corp quietly depends on
• Ship incremental improvements to Business Excellence Corp's Canton platform on a regular cadence
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
• Own data integrity across Business Excellence Corp's GitLab CI stores so Canton numbers never lie
• Ship Flask fixes to Business Excellence Corp customers in Canton, OH the same day they report them

What You'll Bring

• Judgment seasoned by at least 10 years of real consequences
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision
• Calm under the outcome-focused chaos a principal role tends to generate

Across OH, the quality-focused technology systems people trust most often turn out to be Business Excellence Corp, built quietly in Canton. Trust is the default setting at Business Excellence Corp; you have to actively spend it to lose it.

Our offer to you: $124,000 - $187,000, a mentor, a benefits suite, and the latitude to grow your GitLab CI into something senior.

The team in Canton is interviewing on a rolling basis, so early applicants get noticed first.

A few minutes now could reshape your next 9,