Sr Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

Senior Principal, Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the evolution of the ShareFile platform. The ideal candidate will combine hands-on engineering excellence with strategic technical leadership, championing modern software development practices, AI-enabled SDLC, platform modernization, and engineering productivity improvements. You will influence technical direction across multiple teams, mentor senior engineers, and play a key role in shaping the future architecture of ShareFile.

In this role, you will work on

• Lead design and development of complex distributed systems.
• Own and drive the architecture roadmap for critical ShareFile services.
• Design and build highly scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable cloud-native and hybrid solutions using C# and .Net Core and other modern tech stacks.
• Lead architecture reviews and make critical technology decisions across products and platforms.
• Define engineering standards, architectural patterns, and best practices.
• Ensure that the software solutions are scalable, maintainable, and meet the highest quality standards.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership, product management, and senior stakeholders.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to create business value.
• AI-Driven Engineering Excellence
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted software development across the SDLC.
• Establish best practices for using tools such as GitHub Copilot, AI agents, MCP-enabled development tools, automated code review systems, and AI-assisted testing frameworks.
• Leverage AI to improve Requirements analysis, Design reviews, Code generation, Test automation, Code reviews, Incident investigation, Documentation generation, Developer productivity
• Guide engineering teams in adopting responsible AI development practices.

Process and Practices

• Lead the design and development of complex distributed systems.
• Ensure the delivery of secure, compliant, and highly available services.
• Participate in strategic planning, roadmap definition, and prioritization.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Senior and junior engineers. Conduct code reviews, share best practices, and help improve the overall skill sets of the team
• Influence engineering decisions across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

Collaboration Strategy

• Partner with Product Management to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build alignment across geographically distributed teams.
• Represent ShareFile engineering in executive-level technical discussions when needed.

Your background

• 14+ years of professional software development experience.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong experience designing and building large-scale SaaS and enterprise platforms.
• Experience implementing AI-based developer productivity solutions.
• Expert-level proficiency in C#, .NET / .NET Core, Distributed systems, REST APIs, Microservices architecture.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms AWS (preferred), Azure.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Observability platforms.
• Strong architectural design and system decomposition skills.
• Extensive experience with security-first software development practices.
• Demonstrated success leading multi-team technical initiatives.

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