Principal Software Engineer – Location Services
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Principal Software Engineer leading architecture and reliability for Cotality’s geospatial Location Services. Shaping scalable location systems for a global property intelligence company.
Responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the architecture of core Location Services and geospatial capabilities
- Lead system design for highly scalable, low-latency, highly available location-based services
- Define standards and best practices for geospatial data modeling, querying, and processing
- Evaluate and introduce beneficial technologies, patterns, and frameworks
- Serve as technical owner for critical geospatial components and services
- Guide teams through complex technical initiatives spanning multiple services or domains
- Ensure solutions meet performance, accuracy, reliability, and security requirements
- Influence roadmap direction through technical insight and risk assessment
- Partner with product, data, and infrastructure teams to align technical direction with business goals
- Provide technical insights to engineering teams consuming Location Services
- Resolve cross-cutting technical issues and reduce architectural fragmentation
- Improve observability, resilience, and fault tolerance for geospatial systems
- Lead root-cause analysis for significant production issues and ensure long-term corrective action
- Champion automation, testing strategies, and reliability engineering practices
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers
- Set standards for engineering rigor, system design quality, and documentation
- Model pragmatic decision-making and long-term systems thinking
Requirements:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated senior technical leadership
- Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Strong expertise in geospatial concepts, including spatial data models and indexing; geospatial queries, transformations, and projections; and location accuracy, precision, and data quality considerations
- Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages, such as Java, C++, or Python
- Experience building and operating cloud-native services, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Strong understanding of relational, NoSQL, time-series, or geospatial databases
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority
- Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex technical trade-offs to diverse audiences
- Prior ownership of location-based or geospatial platforms in production environments
- Experience with real-time or near-real-time location processing pipelines
- Familiarity with geospatial tooling and standards
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Background in reliability engineering, performance tuning, and scalability testing
- Experience guiding architectural decisions in a platform or shared-services organization
Benefits:
- Generous PTO and 11 paid holidays
- Well-being and volunteer time off
- Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Baby stipend
- Multiple medical plan options
- Mental health and wellness support offerings
- 401(k) with company match and vesting after one year
- $400 annual well-being stipend
- Tuition assistance up to $5,250
- Recognition Rewards
- Referral bonuses
- Exclusive discounts
- Flexible working model
- Professional growth opportunities
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