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Job summary
The Principal Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for designing, delivering, and evolving critical services within the DNS platform. This role leads complex initiatives across teams, ensures high standards of scalability, reliability, and security, and provides strong technical guidance while remaining hands-on in design and implementation. The Principal Engineer partners closely with Architects, Product, and Engineering Managers to translate strategic direction into sound technical execution and predictable delivery.
What you will do
- Lead the design and implementation of complex services and cross-team initiatives within the DNS platform.
- Own technical design for major features and platform enhancements, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Contribute hands-on to implementation, particularly in high-risk or technically challenging areas.
- Participate in and contribute to architecture reviews, RFCs, and design discussions, driving high-quality technical outcomes.
- Collaborate with Architects to ensure alignment with platform standards and long-term direction.
- Identify technical risks early and propose mitigation strategies to reduce delivery and operational risk.
- Improve system observability, performance, and operational readiness across owned services.
- Drive improvements in code quality, testing standards, CI/CD practices, and deployment reliability.
- Mentor Senior and Mid-level Engineers, providing guidance on system design, debugging, and production excellence.
- Serve as a technical escalation point during major incidents related to owned systems.
What you will have
- Typically 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including demonstrated impact operating at Senior Engineer level on large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in backend development (e.g., Java and/or Go), REST/gRPC APIs, cloud platforms, relational and/or NoSQL data stores, caching, and CI/CD practices.
- Solid understanding of distributed system design, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
- Familiarity with DNS and networking fundamentals is considered an advantage, but not a mandatory requirement.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically complex initiatives and deliver predictable outcomes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including writing technical design documents.
Benefits
- Generous time off policies
- Top shelf benefits
- Education, wellness and lifestyle support
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Skills Required
- Significant industry experience in software engineering at Senior/Principal level working on large-scale distributed backend systems
- Expertise in Java and/or Go for backend services
- Experience building and maintaining REST and/or gRPC APIs
- Experience with cloud platforms and cloud-native service deployment
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL data stores and caching solutions
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and tooling
- Strong understanding of DNS and networking fundamentals and operating high-availability, latency-sensitive services
- Proven ability to design and evolve complex systems, articulating trade-offs around performance, reliability, security, and cost
- Experience leading multi-team initiatives and influencing without direct authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to write clear design documents and present technical topics
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The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about DigiCert and has not been reviewed or approved by DigiCert.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Vacation/PTO and sick leave are characterized as strong, and some accounts mention a sabbatical program.
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Retirement Support — The package includes a 401(k) with company matching, with recent confirmations of this benefit.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid and work-from-home options are referenced consistently, indicating practical flexibility in how and where work is done.
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