Principal Software Engineer, Microservices & Integration Platform

Bass Pro Shops; Springfield, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k

Paid holidays

Paid vacation

Paid sick time

Bass Pro Cares Fund

Job summary

Bass Pro Shops seeks a Platform & Architecture Lead to define the strategic roadmaps for microservices, APIs, and event-driven platforms. You will lead architecture reviews, set enterprise standards, and drive scalable, secure systems for high-volume workloads.

You will also evolve reusable platform services, champion CI/CD, observability, and security controls while mentoring engineers and promoting DevSecOps across multiple product teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems at scale.
• 3+ years in principal engineer or lead architect roles.
• Deep expertise in microservices and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Define and drive strategic roadmap for microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Lead architecture reviews and establish enterprise standards and patterns.
• Design scalable, secure distributed systems for high volumes.
• Drive platform services, CI/CD, observability, and deployment patterns.
• Mentor engineers; promote DevSecOps and site reliability engineering.

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices

Java

Kotlin

C#

Node.js

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security best practices

OpenTelemetry

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

API gateways

Service mesh

CI/CD pipelines

OpenTelemetry tooling

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership Define and drive the strategic roadmap for microservices, APIs, integration platforms, and event-driven architectures. Lead architecture reviews and establish enterprise-wide engineering standards, patterns, and best practices. Design highly scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems supporting high transaction volumes and business-critical workloads. Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to ensure alignment with business and technology strategies. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend platform improvements that enhance scalability, performance, and developer experience.

Platform Engineering Architect and evolve reusable platform services that accelerate application development and deployment. Drive standardization of service development frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security controls, and deployment patterns. Establish self-service capabilities for engineering teams to simplify onboarding and service lifecycle management. Champion platform reliability, resiliency, availability, and performance objectives.

Microservices Development Lead the design and development of cloud-native microservices using domain-driven design and modern architectural patterns. Establish standards for service decomposition, API design, service communication, fault tolerance, and resiliency. Guide teams on implementation of scalable synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns. Drive modernization of monolithic applications into loosely coupled microservices architectures.

Integration & Event-Driven Architecture Design and govern enterprise integration strategies across internal and external systems. Lead implementation of API-first architectures and event-driven solutions leveraging messaging and streaming technologies. Build scalable integration patterns using APIs, event brokers, service meshes, and cloud integration services. Ensure reliable, secure, and observable data exchange across business domains.

Engineering Excellence Mentor senior engineers and architects across multiple product teams. Establish coding standards, architecture governance, design reviews, and operational best practices. Promote DevSecOps principles and site reliability engineering practices. Lead root cause analysis and resolution for complex production issues. Drive adoption of automation, testing, observability, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline. 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years designing and delivering distributed systems at scale. 3+ years in a Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, or equivalent technical leadership role. Deep expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems design. Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Hands-on experience developing solutions using Java, Kotlin, C#, Node.js, or similar modern programming languages. Expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, API gateways, and API lifecycle management. Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Event Hub, AWS EventBridge, or similar technologies. Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes. Experience building CI/CD pipelines and implementing DevOps practices. Knowledge of security best practices, authentication, authorization, and Zero Trust principles. Experience with observability platforms including OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, or similar tools.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading enterprise-scale modernization initiatives. Expertise in domain-driven design (DDD), CQRS, event sourcing, and service mesh technologies. Experience with Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions Experience operating high-volume eCommerce, retail, digital commerce, or omnichannel platforms. Knowledge of SRE practices, reliability engineering, and platform operations. Cloud certifications or architecture certifications preferred.

Full Time Benefits Summary

• Enjoy discounts on retail merchandise, our restaurants, world-class resorts and conservation attractions!
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Voluntary benefits
• 401k
• Retirement Savings
• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• Bass Pro Cares Fund
• And more!

Bass Pro Shops is an equal opportunity employer. Hiring decisions are administered without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations Qualified individuals with known disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit your nearest location or contact us at [e-mail].

Bass Pro Shops About

Bass Pro Shops is North America’s premier outdoor and conservation company. Founded in 1972 when avid young angler Johnny Morris began selling tackle out of his father’s liquor store in Springfield, Missouri, today the company provides customers with unmatched offerings spanning premier destination retail, outdoor equipment manufacturing, world-class resort destinations and more. In 2017 Bass Pro Shops joined forces with Cabela’s to create a “best-of-the-best” experience with superior products, dynamic locations and outstanding customer service. Bass Pro Shops also operates White River Marine Group, offering an unsurpassed collection of industry-leading boat brands, and Big Cedar Lodge, America’s Premier Wilderness Resort. Under the visionary conservation leadership of Johnny Morris, Bass Pro Shops is a national leader in protecting habitat and introducing families to the outdoors and has been named by Forbes as “one of America’s Best Employers.”