Principal Software Engineer

Protingent

📍 Redmond, Washington, United States

Direct Hire Computer Occupations Posted June 16, 2026

Job Description

Description:


Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct-hire opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer.



Job Responsibilities:

• Elevate the technical judgment of engineers around you through design reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship

• Troubleshoot and drive resolution of the hardest cross-system issues in our stack

• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure system reliability and rapid issue resolution

• Engage directly with product and executive stakeholders to assess feasibility, cost, and risk of strategic initiatives

• Drive architectural decisions and technical direction across multiple teams and systems

• Directly build and ship software that tackles the hardest, most ambiguous technical problems in our stack

• Set the engineering standard through your own code, design patterns, and technical approach

• Own cross-cutting concerns: scalability, reliabi...