Principal Software Engineer – Distributed Systems

Filetwigbay; Lancaster (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercedes-Benz is seeking a Principal Software Engineer specialized in Cypress to join our technology team in Lancaster. The role offers a strong compensation range and a clear growth track as you leverage 8+ years of experience to move the needle on high-impact distributed systems.

You will design, build, and maintain backend services with Cypress, improve CI/CD infra across CA teams, and mentor a deeply curious temporary team through principal-level initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience guiding principal-level initiatives.
• Design, build, and maintain backend services using Cypress.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Cypress.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across CA engineering teams.
• Reverse-engineer the Ruby format Mercedes-Benz inherited and never documented.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Defend uptime with late-night on-call requirements.
• Translate outage experiences into durable fixes for Lancaster launches.
• Trace technology numbers through Cypress services to ensure correctness.

Skills

Rust workflows

CI/CD

Leadership

Tools

Cypress

Ruby

Job description

Mercedes-Benz is seeking a Principal Software Engineer specialized in Cypress to join our technology team in Lancaster. The role offers a strong compensation range and a clear growth track as you leverage 8+ years of experience to move the needle on high-impact distributed systems.

You will design, build, and maintain backend services with Cypress, improve CI/CD infra across CA teams, and mentor a deeply curious temporary team through principal-level initiatives.