Principal Software Engineer

CloudFirst Corp; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 135,000 - 203,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor

Benefits plan

Growth opportunities

Job summary

CloudFirst Corp in Mesa, AZ is hiring a Principal Software Engineer on a part-time schedule. The role emphasizes improving Kubernetes documentation and contributing strategic tech leadership. You will work with telemetry dashboards, fix user-reported bugs, and collaborate across QA and engineering teams to accelerate delivery.

The position offers mentorship, a benefits plan, and room to grow PostgreSQL and Emotional Intelligence skills along with a growing user base.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with modern software development and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Swift programming skills with ability to learn quickly.
• High emotional intelligence and clear written communication.

Responsibilities

• Pull telemetry into dashboards used by CloudFirst Corp leadership.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix user- and monitor-driven bugs.
• Collaborate with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions.
• Ship Terraform experiments quickly and iterate on what works.
• Automate manual communications to reduce engineering hours.
• Collaborate with users in Mesa to identify needs for the Linux tool.

Skills

Swift

CI/CD

Emotional Intelligence

Written communication

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

This Principal Software Engineer opening is for someone who treats Kubernetes documentation as a first draft they intend to improve. This is $135,000 - $203,000 for 10 years of Kubernetes, a part-time schedule, and a principal stake in where CloudFirst Corp heads next.

Key Responsibilities

• Pull Swift telemetry into dashboards CloudFirst Corp leaders actually open
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early
• Ship Terraform experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Automate the manual Communication chores that quietly drain Mesa, AZ engineering hours
• Sit with technology users in Mesa to learn what the Linux tool really needs
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that CloudFirst Corp users feel every click
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with CloudFirst Corp's growing user base

What You'll Bring

• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking
• Solid CI/CD grounding, plus Swift you can pick up on the fly
• At least 10 years building expertise within the technology space
• Fluency in Emotional Intelligence earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain

You can trace a lot of AZ's technology momentum back to a metrics-driven little team called CloudFirst Corp in Mesa. We give principal hires room to fail small so they can later succeed big on technology work.

Yours for the taking: $135,000 - $203,000, a mentor, a benefits plan, and the room to grow your PostgreSQL and Emotional Intelligence side by side.

The team just got the green light to hire, and this Principal Software Engineer role is first up.