Principal Software Engineer — Scalable Backend & AI Systems

Pearl Street Technologies; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Income protection (disability, life/AD

EAP

HSA / Commuter benefits

Lifestyle & Wellbeing Program

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Enverus is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of scalable backend systems and data platforms within the Power & Energy Transition unit. You will partner with Product, SRE, Security, and data teams to drive reliable software and strategic technical initiatives.

You will mentor engineers, own large engineering initiatives, and contribute to architecture decisions while remaining hands-on in implementation across multiple services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and building highly scalable distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on programming in Python, Go, or Rust.
• Experience with data-intensive applications, pipelines, and large-scale processing.
• Experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong understanding of system architecture and operational excellence.
• Leadership and ownership of large engineering initiatives.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly scalable backend systems and data platforms.
• Lead architecture and technical decision-making across services.
• Own complex engineering initiatives from design to deployment.
• Improve reliability, observability, performance, and ops.
• Modernize existing systems as needs evolve.
• Mentor engineers through reviews and leadership.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, SRE, and Security teams

Skills

8+ years experience

Distributed systems design

Python

Go

Rust

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP/Azure

System architecture

Technical leadership

Collaboration & communication

Tools

Kafka

MySQL

ClickHouse

Docker

Terraform

Pulumi

Argo

Grafana

Sentry

Honeycomb

LangChain

Claude

AWS Bedrock

Job description

Enverus is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of scalable backend systems and data platforms within the Power & Energy Transition unit. You will partner with Product, SRE, Security, and data teams to drive reliable software and strategic technical initiatives.

You will mentor engineers, own large engineering initiatives, and contribute to architecture decisions while remaining hands-on in implementation across multiple services.