Senior Principal Full Stack Engineer

Digi Cert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered Digi Cert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose Digi Cert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at

Job Duties:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services supporting large-scale distributed systems (20%).
• Participate in system architecture, service design, and data modeling to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance (15%).
• Provide guidance on system design and implementation across multiple services (10%).
• Design and implement APIs (RESTful or gRPC) for internal and external platform services (15%).
• Develop and optimize systems to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads (10%). Work with cloud-based infrastructure to deploy, monitor, and operate services in production environments (5%).
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes (5%).
• Analyze and improve system performance, reliability, and fault tolerance in distributed environments (5%).
• Design, implement, and operate DNS-based services, including DNS record lifecycle management, caching strategies, and traffic routing policies to ensure reliable and performant name resolution at scale (10%).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and operations, to define and deliver technical solutions (3%).
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues and support ongoing system operations (1%).
• Document system design, architecture, and operational procedures (1%).

Telecommuting:Telecommuting may be permitted up to 3 days per week. When not telecommuting, must report to Digi Cert, Inc. at 6 Pidgeon Hill Drive, Ste 360 Sterling, VA 20147.

Salary:$179,000-$215,000 per year

• Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or related field
• 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any occupation, job title, or position developing and operating mission-critical platforms.

Special Requirements:

Must also have:

• 5 years of professional experience developing backend systems using Java in large-scale, distributed, high-availability environments
• 5 years of professional experience building applications using frameworks (including Spring Boot) to design modular and service-oriented architectures
• 5 years of professional experience designing and implementing RESTful and gRPC APIs, including handling high-throughput and low-latency workloads
• 5 years of professional experience working with cloud-based infrastructure (including Amazon Web Services (AWS)), encompassing deployment, scalability, service availability, and resiliency
• 5 years of professional experience working with relational and No
  
  SQL databases, including designing data models for distributed systems and performance optimization
• 5 years of professional experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing and deployment strategies for distributed services
• 5 years of professional experience designing distributed systems, including concepts including service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, and system observability
• 2 years of professional experience designing DNS architecture and networking fundamentals, including DNS record management, caching behavior, and traffic routing concepts.

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