Principal Software Engineer

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Denver, CO (Hybrid)
About Accuris:
Accuris is the global leader in engineering intelligence, trusted by the world's most innovative companies to accelerate design, reduce risk, and ensure supply chain resilience. Formed in 2023 through the combination of S&P Engineering Solutions (formerly part of IHS Markit) and Techstreet, Accuris brings together six decades of authority in engineering standards, technical content, and workflow technology. Our solutions serve critical industries including aerospace & defense, energy, electronics, automotive, and advanced manufacturing.
Position Summary:
We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer to serve as the hands-on technical lead for a new cross-functional pod (engineering, product, UX, architecture, and developer enablement). You'll set technical direction, own key architectural decisions, and mentor senior/staff engineers while shipping high-impact features for global customers. This is a broad, product-focused role spanning services, APIs, data, and UI-ideal for a systems thinker who enjoys building durable platforms and customer-visible value. You won't manage people; you'll lead through architecture, code, influence, and outcomes.
Impact in your first 6-12 months:

• Deliver the pod's v1/v2 services with measurable SLOs and robust dashboards
• Cut lead time and incident rates through standards, tooling, and runbooks
• Establish reusable libraries/templates that speed up other pods
• Mentor engineers to raise design quality and operational excellence

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the pod's technical strategy: clarify domain boundaries, define target architecture, and evolve systems using DDD.
• Design & build cloud-native microservices in .NET (Core) on Kubernetes (AWS), with clean contracts and strong observability.
• Ship end-to-end features across API, data, and front end (React/Angular) with a focus on performance, accessibility, and UX quality.
• Raise the bar on operability: SLOs, dashboards, alerting, runbooks; drive reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Champion CI/CD and quality: automated tests (unit/integration/e2e), progressive delivery (blue/green, canary), IaC.
• Mentor & multiply: coach senior/staff engineers, run design reviews, steward coding standards and "golden paths."
• Partner cross-functionally with Product/UX/SRE/Security and adjacent pods to deliver cohesive solutions and clear SLAs.
• Make trade-offs explicit: communicate risks, options, and impact to technical and executive audiences.

Our Environment (you don't need every box):

• Core: C#/.NET (Core), ASP.NET, Web API/gRPC, REST
• Front end: React or Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS (Tailwind/Bootstrap)
• Cloud & runtime: AWS, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, Linux; IaC (Terraform/CDK)
• Data & eventing: SQL Server/PostgreSQL, Redis; Kafka (eventing/outbox/CDC)
• Search/analytics (nice): Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, columnar/OLAP stores
• DevEx & quality: Git, CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions), test automation, OpenTelemetry, feature flags

Qualifications:

• 8+ years in software engineering with increasing scope; 3+ years leading delivery/architecture in agile product teams.
• Proven experience building microservices at scale in .NET Core on a major cloud (AWS preferred).
• Strong systems thinking: domain modeling, API design, data consistency, performance, resilience, and security basics (OWASP).
• Track record improving CI/CD, test automation, and operability (SLOs, on-call readiness, incident reduction).
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills; ability to align diverse stakeholders and elevate engineering standards.
• Multi-region/DR patterns, zero-downtime migrations, chaos testing.
• Event-driven architectures with Kafka; idempotency/outbox patterns.
• Observability at scale (OpenTelemetry) and cost/performance optimization.
• Experience with search platforms (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) or analytics pipelines.

Compensation/Benefits Information:
The anticipated salary range for this position is $155,000 to $170,000. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual's geographical location as well as experience and qualifications for the role. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan as well as comprehensive benefits. For more information on benefits, please reach out to the recruiter assigned to the role.
About Company Statement:Accuris delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world's leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. We think differently, combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the unapologetic boldness of a startup. https://accuristech.com/
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