Principal Software Engineer

Description Ciklum; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Udemy access

Language courses

Company-paid certifications

Internal mobility

Job summary

Ciklum is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our US team. You will own cross-functional architecture and shape platform strategy for enterprise-grade SaaS products.

You will drive modernization, define API standards, and mentor engineers across multiple teams while navigating complex, multi-region cloud environments and security considerations. This role requires strong communication, hands-on problem solving, and a track record of delivering durable technical decisions in

Qualifications

• Ten years total experience, with ≥5 years as Staff/Principal at B2B SaaS startups.
• Strong knowledge across Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and frontend frameworks.
• Ability to move between system-level architecture and hands-on problem solving.
• Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS apps with solid engineering fundamentals.
• Proven architecture leadership across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture across product and platform.
• Define and evolve platform and API standards.
• Lead architecture reviews and roadmaps balancing delivery and long-term maintainability.

Skills

Multi-stack knowledge

Architectural leadership

Strong communication

B2B SaaS experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Java/J2EE

Oracle

Postgres

AWS

GCP

Azure

React

Vue.js

Job description

Ciklum is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team full-time in the US.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Principal Software Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Own architecture across product and platform
  • Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards
  • Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance
  • Identifysystemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution
• Introducenew technologiesand best practices
  • Evaluate and introducenew technologiesresponsiblypilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable
  • Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates
  • Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs
• Solve the hardest cross-team problems
  • Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges
  • Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable
  • Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails
• Global cloud and regulated environment leadership
  • Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability)
  • Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance
• Mentor and coach across the organization
  • Mentor engineers acrossteams;coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment
  • Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops

Requirements:

• Technical breadth (multi-stack)
  • Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups
  • Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js)
  • Ability to move between systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default
  • Experience building andoperatingmodern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals
• Architecture leadership
  • Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions
  • Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity
  • Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs
• Global cloud + FedRAMP experience
  • Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi-region deployments, DR/BCP, observability)
  • Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments
• Mentorship and communication
  • Strong written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership
  • Track recordof mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising thetechnic albar
• Education:
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
  • Master's degree preferred

Desirable:

• Experience designing shared services (identity/auth, platform APIs) and driving adoption through developer experience improvements
• Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and platform tooling that improves developer productivity
• Experience leading large-scale modernization of legacy Java/J2EE systems
• Experience in commercial real estate software

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: Healthcare, Basic Life Insurance, Short and Long-term disability insurance according to the Company’s Benefit Plans

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress. In the US, Ciklum is growing fast—inviting experienced professionals to lead digital transformation alongside Fortune 500 clients. Be part of a company where innovation and impact go hand in hand.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

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