Principal Software Engineer

Ciklum • Canada,

6d • Remote

About The Position

Ciklum is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team full-time in Canada. We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live. As a Principal Software Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Requirements

• Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups.
• Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js).
• Ability to move between systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default.
• Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals.
• Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions.
• Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity.
• Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi-region deployments, DR/BCP, observability).
• Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership.
• Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising the technical bar.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree preferred.
• Experience designing shared services (identity/auth, platform APIs) and driving adoption through developer experience improvements.
• Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and platform tooling that improves developer productivity.
• Experience leading large-scale modernization of legacy Java/J2EE systems.
• Experience in commercial real estate software.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture across product and platform: Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards. Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance. Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution.
• Introduce new technologies and best practices: Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly; pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable. Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates. Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs.
• Solve the hardest cross-team problems: Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges. Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable. Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails.
• Global cloud and regulated environment leadership: Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability). Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance.
• Mentor and coach across the organization: Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment. Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops.

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Basic Life Insurance
• Short and Long-term disability insurance according to the Company’s Benefit Plans
• Udemy access
• language courses
• company-paid certifications

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal