Principal Engineer (R-20004)

Dublin - Ireland · 12+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 5, 2026

At a glance

The Principal Engineer will work across the full stack to build highly scalable distributed solutions that drive business growth.
This role involves providing technical direction, mentoring engineers, and championing AI-enabled engineering practices to improve productivity and software quality.

Work across the full stack to build scalable distributed solutions.
Partner with development and product teams to ensure product quality in an Agile environment.
Collaborate with the SRE team to deploy and manage data infrastructure on cloud platforms.
Provide technical leadership during customer-impacting incidents and drive post-incident improvements.
Provide technical direction through expertise in system design and architecture.
Deliver Proof of Concept (POC) projects to identify architectural direction and gaps.
Design and support workflows by collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Analyze and resolve complex technical requirements and issues.
Improve quality through automation, process improvement, and innovative thinking.
Mentor and develop engineers through design reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.
12+ years of experience managing and deploying commercial software products.
Experience building products across the full stack with understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and back-end languages.
Proven experience building large-scale, distributed systems.
Proven experience managing solutions on GCP or AWS.
Expertise in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
Experience in performance engineering and optimizations.
Experience with cloud-native solutions and infrastructure management.
Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, Gemini, or Claude.
Proven excellence with Java, Scala, Python, Spark/PySpark, and scripting languages.

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