Senior Principal Software Engineer
Progress Software Corporation6 months ago
Remote, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own engineering for critical functional and architectural areas of LoadMaster.
- Design, implement, and deliver core features and platform components.
- Serve as the technical authority for complex subsystems and problem areas.
- Drive performance, scalability, security, and maintainability improvements.
- Lead deep problem analysis, proofs of concept, prototypes, and resolution across the stack.
- Guide engineering requirements and architectural impact assessments.
- Provide technical guidance to globally distributed teams and mentor senior engineers.
- Collaborate with product, engineering leadership, and peers on roadmap decisions and trade-offs.
- Champion high-quality code, code reviews, continuous improvement, cross-team standards, tooling, and automation.
Requirements
- Extensive experience delivering complex, high-performance Linux systems.
- Expert C systems programming focused on low-latency TCP/IP networking.
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals, including the networking stack, memory, and kernel-userspace interactions.
- Proven performance engineering experience involving profiling, bottleneck analysis, and optimization.
- Strong security background in threat modeling, cryptography, and secure design.
- Advanced Bash and Linux tooling experience for automation and diagnostics.
- Solid understanding of CPU, memory, NUMA, and I/O for optimization.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading cross-team technical impact.
- Beneficial qualifications include expertise in authentication, WAF, load balancing, proxy architectures, and TLS; experience with embedded Linux and hardware acceleration; distributed systems experience across cloud or virtualized environments; and observability experience across complex systems.
Benefits
- Generous remuneration package.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan enrollment.
- 25 vacation days annually, birthday day off, community service time off, and International Women’s Day as an official holiday.
- Pension plan, group life assurance, income protection for long-term illness or injury, and private health insurance.
- Hybrid working arrangement.
- Cycle to Work scheme for tax-efficient bike and equipment purchases.