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Principal Engineer Transmission Planning
Avangrid Service Co
BIBLE SCHOOL PARK, NY
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Principal Systems Engineer, Fuel Cell Systems
Plug Power Inc.
ALBANY, NY
Principal Systems Engineer, Fuel Cell Systems Status: Exempt (salaried) Department: Product Development Engineering - Fuel Cell Platforms Location: On site role based in Slingerlands, NY…
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Principal Engineer Transmission Planning
Avangrid Service Co
ROCHESTER, NY
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ConvergeProsperity - Product Forward Deployed Engineer, BankingSuite (Manager) - Products & Platforms
Deloitte
New York, NY
You are equally comfortable whiteboarding microservices architecture with a client's principal engineer, running a hands-on technical workshop for a team of developers, and standing up a…
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Lead Product Forward Deployed Engineer (pFDE) - Products & Platforms
Deloitte
New York, NY
You are equally comfortable whiteboarding microservices architecture with a client's principal engineer, running a hands-on technical workshop for a team of developers, and standing up a…
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Banking Product Forward Deployed Engineer - Products & Platforms
Deloitte
New York, NY
You are equally comfortable whiteboarding microservices architecture with a client's principal engineer, running a hands-on technical workshop for a team of developers, and standing up a…
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Principal Software Engineer, Site Reliability (Agentforce Ops)
Salesforce.com
NEW YORK, NY
…transition. What You'll Actually Be DoingAs a Production Support Engineer (PMTS), you will be a senior technical member of staff within our embedded reliability team. You aren't building…
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Sentinel - Principal Systems Safety Engineer - 17339
Northrop Grumman
Huntsville, AL
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking to hire a Principal Systems Safety Engineer to join its team of diverse and qualified individuals. This position will be located in Roy, Utah or…
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Sentinel - Systems / Principal Systems Safety Engineer
Northrop Grumman
Huntsville, AL
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Systems Safety Engineer / Principal Systems Safety Engineer . This position is located in Roy, UT or Huntsville, Alabama and supports the…
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Dev Lead
Eliassen Group
Pierre, SD
- $110 to $120 USD / hour
2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
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Principal Digital Design Engineer
NAVITAS SEMICONDUCTOR USA, INC.
Torrance, CA
- $170,000 to $190,000 USD / year
We are seeking a Principal Digital Design Engineer to join our fast-growing, collaborative team. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, energetic, and able to thrive in a high-growth,…
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Dev Lead
Eliassen Group
Phoenix, AZ
- $110 to $120 USD / hour
2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
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Dev Lead
Eliassen Group
Jackson, MS
- $110 to $120 USD / hour
2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
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ConvergeProsperity - Product Forward Deployed Engineer, BankingSuite (Manager) - Products & Platforms
Deloitte
Boston, MA
You are equally comfortable whiteboarding microservices architecture with a client's principal engineer, running a hands-on technical workshop for a team of developers, and standing up a…
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Medtronic
Boston, MA
Principal Engineer: Bachelor’s degree + a minimum of 7 years of engineering experience or a Master’s degree with 5+ years of engineering experience
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Banking Product Forward Deployed Engineer - Products & Platforms
Deloitte
Boston, MA
You are equally comfortable whiteboarding microservices architecture with a client's principal engineer, running a hands-on technical workshop for a team of developers, and standing up a…
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Lead Product Forward Deployed Engineer (pFDE) - Products & Platforms
Deloitte
Boston, MA
You are equally comfortable whiteboarding microservices architecture with a client's principal engineer, running a hands-on technical workshop for a team of developers, and standing up a…
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CTO, Anthropic Practice
EPAM Systems
Boston, MA
Experience: 12+ years in software engineering, architecture, or technical consulting, including 5+ years in a senior client-facing technical role (field CTO, principal architect, or head of…
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Technical Associate I, Chung Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
…Hands-on research experience; or familiarity with data analysis software and toolsThis position is ideal for individuals planning to pursue medical school or graduate study in a scientific…
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Dev Lead
Eliassen Group
Boston, MA
- $110 to $120 USD / hour
2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
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Dev Lead
Eliassen Group
Lincoln, NE
- $110 to $120 USD / hour
2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
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Principal Network Developer
Oracle
Nashville, TN
- $102,300 to $209,500 USD / year
As a Principal Network Engineer, you will lead the design, deployment, operation, and optimization of large-scale RDMA/RoCE network fabrics across OCI’s global cloud infrastructure. You…
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Dev Lead
Eliassen Group
Honolulu, HI
- $110 to $120 USD / hour
2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
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Dev Lead
Eliassen Group
Cheyenne, WY
- $110 to $120 USD / hour
2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.
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Dev Lead
Eliassen Group
Concord, NH
- $110 to $120 USD / hour
2+ years as a senior or principal engineer with design, implementation, and operational ownership.

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Confluent - Principal Engineer

TUCSON, AZ, United States

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Posted: Oct 30, 2026

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Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer for the Cloud Architecture and Reliability (CAR) team, you will be a technical authority on ensuring our large-scale, multi-cloud data streaming platform stays up, recovers fast, and has the right operator tools to keep data flowing. You will work across all Confluent R&D teams to shape the architecture of the systems and our own tooling. As a lead engineer within the CAR team you will work with and through other team members to deliver on our mission.

Primary Responsibilities:

Resiliency: Partner with peer teams and other leaders in CAR to define the architectural patterns and standards that create systemic resiliency for Confluent Cloud. Help teams reason about how services, dependencies, and failure domains compose end to end.
Observability: Shape the architecture of a large-scale internal observability platform (metrics, logs, and traces) built on open standards such as OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. Make deliberate tradeoffs on cost, cardinality, signal attribution, and platform self-protection (quotas, rate limits, regional isolation), and make sure the platform itself is exceptionally reliable.
Agentic Operator Foundations: Design and build agent-consumable operational data, tooling, and guardrails for AI-assisted triage and remediation.

Partner with Customers and Leadership: Serve as an engineering voice on reliability, resiliency, and observability requirements from regulated customers (for example financial services and public sector), and help translate regulatory and contractual expectations into engineering standards.

Required technical and professional expertise

Deep Expertise in Reliability Engineering: Proven track record of designing, operating, and improving highly available distributed systems at cloud scale, with a clear understanding of failure domains, recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), and graceful degradation.
Systems-Level Thinking: Established ability to model how many services and teams interact, find the structure underneath the complexity, and turn that into standards, guardrails, and architecture that scale beyond a single team.
Mastery of Observability Fundamentals: Expertise in metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and SLOs, including the economics and failure modes of telemetry platforms at high volume and cardinality.
Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to set direction, influence senior engineers and leaders across organizations, and drive adoption of standards you do not directly enforce.
Exceptional Written Communication: Ability to explain complex tradeoffs clearly, concisely, and with sound judgment.
Hands-On Software Development: Strong coding and design skills in one or more languages with a record of delivering production tools and software.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Resiliency and Recovery Design: Experience with business continuity and disaster recovery for large cloud services, including failover automation, multi-region and active-active architectures, and continuous recovery testing.
Open Source Observability Stack: Experience with Apache Druid, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus-compatible storage, Grafana, distributed tracing, etc.
Regulated Environments: Familiarity with operational resilience regimes and frameworks such as DORA, FedRAMP, and SOC 2, and with translating them into engineering practice.
Data Streaming and Distributed Systems: Experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or comparable platforms.
AI-Assisted Operations: Experience building or evaluating agentic tooling for operations (for example MCP-based tools, automated triage, and automated remediation), with a skeptic's eye for quality and safety.
Platform Economics: Experience reducing the cost of observability or infrastructure while improving capability.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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