Principal Software Engineer; Engineering Ops

Principal Software Engineer (Engineering Ops)

Atlanta, GA

As a Stable Kernel Principal Software Engineer, you play an essential role in setting our portfolio of world-class clients up for success through the development and delivery of their most innovative, transformational initiatives. You will collaborate daily with other engineers and product team members, make decisions that influence the path of a product roadmap, leverage software development best practices, and become a more well-rounded engineer as you learn new technologies.

Your knowledgeable practice, reliability, and consultative nature make you an engineer that stakeholders and teammates trust.

Principal Software Engineers may be classified as individual contributors or people managers with individual contributor responsibilities.

• Technical Impact:
• Designing and implementing exemplary solutions regarding scalability and cost-effectiveness by making trade-offs between opportunity and complexity.
• Setting standards for codebase health and promoting best practices throughout the organization.
• Business Alignment:
• Clarifying strategic outcomes and influencing roadmaps and projects.
• Identifying, suggesting, and driving improvements in your customers' end-to-end experience.
• Aiding in estimating work for new business with more unknowns and coaching others in estimation best practices.
• Interacting with Others:
• Coordinating across the entire company.
• Influencing the entire organization to make changes to support your work.
• Advising teams across the company.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity:
• Designing a long-term roadmap with no direction.
• Translating customer and business needs and strategic direction into projects and consistently simplifying high-complexity situations.
• Coaching and mentoring others in tackling ambiguity.
• Problem-Solving:
• Decomposing strategic direction into projects:
• Planning, communicating, and executing to solve our most challenging problems.
• Ensuring alignment with long-term objectives, fostering a culture of informed decision-making and innovation.
• Anticipating most risks and driving simplification to mitigate risks ahead of time.
• Escalating issues while solving them in parallel ensuring others are informed.
• Leadership:
• Proposing new organization-level processes to improve key areas such as team throughput, employee happiness, or product engagement.
• Driving best practices across the organization.
• Exhibiting exceptional mentoring abilities and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement by:
• Identifying and nurturing potential in others
• Providing strategic guidance
• Helping develop career paths for team members
• Leading projects.
• Setting the strategic direction for projects or areas of technology, leading multiple project teams, and influencing decision-making at higher organizational levels.
• Exhibiting strong capabilities in stakeholder management, negotiating, and problem-solving in complex scenarios.
• Mentoring and developing other leaders within the team, fostering a culture of innovation, and contributing significantly to organizational goals.

• Polyglot: Extensive experience with a wide variety of both frontend and backend languages, and ability to learn new ones with ease. Current stack consists of Typescript, Golang, React and React Native.
• Agentic Development: Has intimate working knowledge of current agentic practices, keeps ahead of the curve of agentic development. This includes but is not limited to Claude Code, Open Code, Spec-driven-development, and agent orchestrators.
• AWS: Drive cloud architecture strategy on AWS, building secure, scalable, and cost-optimized systems with services such as ECS/Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS/Postgres, S3, Cloud Watch, KMS, and IAM; guide teams in adopting cloud-native patterns and operational excellence.
• Pulumi/Terraform & IaC: Experience driving infrastructure strategy and automation using Pulumi or Terraform, embedding Infrastructure as Code into development workflows and enabling secure, scalable cloud environments.
• Vector databases (e.g., ) for similarity search and AI/ML-powered applications.
• Deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications securely and reliably using Kubernetes.

• 10+ years of experience delivering and evolving production systems across diverse technical stacks, platforms, and architectures.
• Extensive experience serving as a trusted consultant to stakeholders and cross-functional teams, providing expert guidance on backend service design, delivery, and integration.
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field or experience.

Minimum Base Compensation: $170,000

This is a full-time position.

Stable Kernel operates a People Before Place Hybrid model, allowing most employees to choose where they can do their best work most days.

Minimal travel is associated with this role.

Our generous total compensation package includes:

• Company-subsidized health, vision, and dental plan premium options…