Senior Principal Software Engineer
Progress Software Corporation27 days ago
Brno, CzechiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own engineering for critical functional and architectural areas of the LoadMaster platform.
- Design, implement, and deliver core features and platform components.
- Act as technical authority for complex subsystems and architectural problem areas.
- Drive performance, scalability, security, and maintainability improvements.
- Lead deep problem analysis, proofs of concept, prototypes, and resolution efforts.
- 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 roadmaps 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 with 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 optimization.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading cross-team technical impact.
- Beneficial qualifications include expertise in authentication, WAF, load balancing, proxy architectures, TLS, embedded Linux, hardware acceleration, distributed systems, cloud or virtualized environments, and observability practices.
Benefits
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan enrollment.
- Fifth week of vacation, birthday leave, service-anniversary leave, and community service time off.
- International Women's Day is an official holiday for all employees.
- Risk life insurance, meal allowance, and a Flowmon Benefit Program usable for leisure and wellness, pension insurance, or a co-funded Multisport card.
- Flexible working hours and work-from-home options; the posting is marked hybrid.
- Relaxation zone, workplace drinks and fruit, and company-wide events.