Principal System Engineeringi

Cricket Wireless LLC.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 196,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement program

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Caregiver Leave

Adoption Reimbursement

Disability Benefits

Life and Accidental Death Insurance

Employee Assistance Programs

Extensive wellness programs

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal System Engineer to architect and analyze large-scale distributed systems, guiding cloud-native migrations and API-driven platforms. The role demands leadership across multiple teams, technical depth in modern frontend/backend stacks, and a track record of delivering scalable enterprise solutions.

You will design end-to-end architectures, define standards, and mentor engineers while coordinating across product and engineering directors to align with business goals.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering and 7+ years progressively responsible experience.
• Experience designing large-scale distributed systems with cloud-native architectures and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and analyze large-scale distributed systems across software components.
• Lead architectural decisions and coordinate across engineering teams.
• Develop and migrate to cloud-native microservices and API-driven platforms.
• Ensure performance, scalability, reliability, security, and usability.
• Produce comprehensive technical documentation and run design reviews.

Skills

System architecture

Technical leadership

Cross-team coordination

Performance optimization

DevOps practices

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Microservices

API design

Kafka

Docker/Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer/EIS/Engineering

Tools

React.js

Next.js

TypeScript

Redux

MUI

Styled Components

Tailwind CSS

React Native

Java/Kotlin

Spring Boot

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Maven

GitHub

GCP/Azure

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Principal System Engineering

Job Location: 211 S Akard St., Dallas, TX 75202

Duties

Architect, design and analyze large-scale distributed systems by defining end-to-end system architecture across software components, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards for performance, scalability, reliability, security, and usability. Determine and implement integrated architecture solutions by evaluating and selecting appropriate technologies (e.g. cloud platforms, micro services, event-driven systems, APIs and data platforms) to meet evolving business and technical requirements. Lead architectural design decisions and serve as primary point of contact for complex technical solutions, ensuring consistency, scalability and alignment across multiple engineering teams and systems. Coordinate system design and integration efforts across multiple applications including frontend, backend, APIs, data stores and infrastructure to deliver cohesive and scalable enterprise solutions. Design and develop multiple system versions and prototypes to evaluate and optimize performance scalability and fault tolerance under varying workloads and production scenarios. Drive development of new technologies and modernize initiatives including migration from legacy systems to cloud-native architectures, micro services and API driven platforms. Research, evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and tools (e.g. AI/ML, cloud services, GraphQL, caching strategies) to improve system efficiency, developer productivity and overall system quality. Define and enforce technical standards, design patterns and best practices for application development, system integration, API design, caching, session management and error handling across engineering teams. Collaborate with cross functional teams and leadership (including architects, product managers and engineering directors) to align technical solutions with business objectives and strategic initiation. Review and refine architectural solutions for large scale epics and initiatives ensuring technical feasibility, readiness and alignment prior to implementation. Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation including architectural diagrams, design documents, API specifications and operation guidelines. Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers and development teams including conducting design reviews, code reviews and knowledge sharing sessions to improve engineering quality and productivity. Identify and implement process improvements in software development lifecycle including CI/CD pipelines, release processes, testing strategies and automation of engineering workflows. Lead performance optimization efforts including tuning application performance, improving response times and optimizing resource utilization across distributed systems. Participate in production support and incident management including troubleshooting complex issues, implementing hot fixes and ensuring system continuity and high availability. Build multiple versions systems addressing performance and scale. Develop technical documentation on applications and systems. Utilize modern frontend technologies including React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Redux, MUI, Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, React Native, and Java development (Java/Kotlin). Utilize backend frameworks and enterprise application development using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Struts2, and integration with REST, SOAP APIs, and GraphQL along with database systems Cassandra NoSQL, RDBMS Oracle/Postgres/MySQL. Use event-driven and messaging systems such as Kafka, along with networking protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and UDP. Utilize DevOps, CI/CD, and code quality tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Veracode, Helm, Docker, and Kubernetes. Utilize build and version control tools such as Maven, Gradle, Ant, GitLab, Bitbucket, and GitHub. Use public clouds such as Google Cloud, Azure Cloud and monitoring platforms such as Splunk, and Dynatrace.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent degree in Applied Computer Science, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering and seven (7) years of progressive, postbaccalaureate experience in the job offered or seven (7) years of progressive, postbaccalaureate experience in a related occupation building multiple versions systems addressing performance and scale; and developing technical documentation on applications and systems; utilizing modern frontend technologies including React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Redux, MUI, Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, React Native, and Java development (Java/Kotlin); utilizing backend frameworks and enterprise application development using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Struts2, and integration with REST, SOAP APIs, and GraphQL along with database systems Cassandra NoSQL, RDBMS Oracle/Postgres/MySQL; using event-driven and messaging systems such as Kafka, along with networking protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, and UDP; utilizing DevOps, CI/CD, and code quality tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Veracode, Helm, Docker, and Kubernetes; utilizing build and version control tools such as Maven, Gradle, Ant, GitLab, Bitbucket, and GitHub; using public clouds such as Google Cloud, Azure Cloud and monitoring platforms such as Splunk, and Dynatrace.

Salary

Our Principal System Engineering earn between $196,000 - $261,100 yearly.

World of salary: Our Principal System Engineering jobs earn between $174,100.00 - $261,100.00 USD Annual. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Benefits and Perks

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

Job Details

Weekly Hours: 40 Time Type: Regular Location: Dallas, Texas Salary Range: $174,100.00 - $261,100.00

Equal Employment Opportunity

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