Principal Software Engineer - Remote-First, Pricing Platform

ATPCO; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First Culture

Flexible work from home country ofhire

401(k) with generous match

Medical, dental, vision, & mental健康

Job summary

ATPCO in the United States seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead evolution of a high-scale pricing platform that manages 200M+ fares across 160+ countries.

You will drive architecture decisions, tackle distributed-systems challenges, and push for low-latency, high-throughput performance in a remote-friendly environment.

This role offers strong compensation and benefits while shaping the future of airline retailing.

Qualifications

• Expert-level C and Rust proficiency and production-grade systems experience.
• Deep knowledge of Linux, performance, and resource management.
• Experience building fault-tolerant distributed systems in production.
• Strong ownership, data-driven problem solving, and proactive thinking.
• Clear written communication in a distributed, async-friendly team.

Responsibilities

• Extend and evolve the pricing engine to support new use cases.
• Shape the platform architecture and drive key technical decisions.
• Solve complex challenges in distributed systems, scalability, and reliability.
• Work across the stack from low-level system interactions to APIs.
• Optimize for extreme performance and low latency at scale.

Skills

C

Rust

Go

Python

Linux

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Ownership

Self-directed learning

Communication

AI tools

Job description

ATPCO in the United States seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead evolution of a high-scale pricing platform that manages 200M+ fares across 160+ countries.

You will drive architecture decisions, tackle distributed-systems challenges, and push for low-latency, high-throughput performance in a remote-friendly environment.

This role offers strong compensation and benefits while shaping the future of airline retailing.