Principal Software Engineer

Engineers who can explain Redis to a skeptic and still ship by Friday tend to thrive in our Principal Software Engineer role in Tuscaloosa. Join Spotify as a remote Principal Software Engineer and take real ownership of Redis work while earning $128,000 - $202,000 and growing your craft.

• Guard the People Management codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Reverse-engineer the fast-growing Java format Spotify inherited and never documented
• Mentor newer principal hires on how Spotify actually wires Microservices together
• Refactor the technology module Spotify has been afraid to touch
• Keep the Microservices build pipeline green so Tuscaloosa deploys never wait on a red light
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Spring Boot and CI/CD

• An AL work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• Comfort owning technology decisions in an AL market
• Hands-on proficiency with Spring Boot, ideally paired with People Management
• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve
• The kind of listening that makes the other person feel heard
• Hands-on Git Hub Actions experience that survives a whiteboard interview
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint

Spotify has spent 8 years turning technology headaches into routine wins for clients across Tuscaloosa, AL. We default to documenting decisions so AL and remote teammates stay equally in the loop.

For your Redis and 10 of grit, we offer $128,000 - $202,000, mentorship, benefits, and the flexibility to do Tuscaloosa on your terms.

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