Principal Software Engineer
C.H. Robinson23 hours ago
Base Salary
$128k - $296k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and implement reliable, maintainable, and extensible architecture patterns for full-stack applications.
- Build reusable UI components, optimize API performance, and architect scalable backend services.
- Integrate AI and automation into software development and operational workflows.
- Collaborate with Product, UX, Data Science, and Engineering teams to align technical direction with business priorities.
- Communicate technical trade-offs, design decisions, and architectural vision to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Create technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and design guidelines.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams.
- Support high availability, production troubleshooting, incident response, post-mortems, and permanent root-cause fixes.
- Drive alignment and technical excellence across multiple engineering teams and divisions.
- Evaluate and adopt engineering tools and technologies to improve developer productivity and system efficiency.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed software systems across multiple platforms.
- 10+ years of experience with modern development languages such as .NET Core and C#.
- Expertise with relational databases including MS SQL and Oracle, and non-relational databases including MongoDB, Elastic, and CosmosDB.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, CQRS, event-driven design, and eventual consistency patterns.
- Experience with data streaming architectures and frameworks such as Kafka, ESB, and Apache Flink.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and embedding AI/ML models into applications.
- Expertise in testing strategies, automated testing frameworks, acceptance criteria, and test-automation reviews.
- Proficiency with Git, GitHub, TFS, branching strategies, and collaborative version control practices.
- Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and Terraform.
- Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Hands-on experience with end-to-end feature development spanning API design, backend services, and frontend integration.
- Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems, participating in on-call rotations, and leading post-mortems and root-cause analysis.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts to executives, engineers, and product managers.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or MIS.
- Preferred qualifications include JavaScript/TypeScript and React experience, UX/product sensibility, AI-powered observability and anomaly detection experience, open-source or inner-source development, and open-source contributions, frameworks, or patents.
Benefits
- Three medical plans, prescription drug coverage, enhanced fertility benefits, flexible spending accounts, and a health savings account with employer contribution.
- Dental and vision coverage, basic and supplemental life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Paid observed holidays, two floating holidays for U.S. hourly employees, and Flexible Time Off for U.S. salaried employees or PTO for other U.S. and Canadian employees.
- Paid parental leave and paid time off for community volunteering.
- Charitable Giving Match Program, 401(k) with 6% company matching, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Career development, networking, and team-building opportunities.
- The role may be located only in Minnesota, Chicago, or Kansas City.
Tech Stack
Apache FlinkApache KafkaAWSAzureC#GitGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptJenkinsMongoDBReactTensorFlowTerraformTypeScript
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About C.H. Robinson
C.H. Robinson is the global leader in Lean AI supply chains. For more than a century, companies everywhere have looked to us to reimagine how goods move. Now, as we redefine what’s next for the industry, that same drive fuels our commitment to Building Tomorrow’s Supply Chains, Today™. Trusted by 83,000 customers and 450,000 contract carriers, we manage an unmatched 37 million shipments annually, representing $23 billion in freight. We deliver tailored solutions across the world via truckload, less-than-truckload, ocean, air, and more. With our unique combination of human insight and Lean AI working as one, supply chains move faster, smarter, and more sustainably. As a responsible global citizen, we proudly contribute millions to the causes that matter most to our employees. For more information visit www.chrobinson.com. (Nasdaq: CHRW)