Lead Principal Engineer@ KL, Malaysia

Role: Lead Principal Engineer

Location: KL

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description:

Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including TypeScript or a similar web stack language
• Experience providing technical direction for critical, business-facing systems, across multiple teams
• Microservices and event-driven architecture: service boundaries, async messaging, idempotency, ordering, and dead-letter handling
• RDBMS and NoSQL data modelling, including schema design and query performance
• API design and management, including REST and API gateway patterns
• Observability grounded in OpenTelemetry, plus familiarity with APM/dashboard tooling (Dynatrace, Grafana, or similar)
• AuthN/AuthZ, least-privilege IAM, and secrets management fundamentals • Bonus: experience with Azure

Leadership

• Works effectively across engineering, product, and architecture/security boundaries
• Good judgement on when to own a problem and when to bring in others to collaborate on it
• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical audiences alike
• Builds trust through technical credibility, not authority