Principal Software Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies•Edison, NJ

22h•Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to create scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications. As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of transforming business processes through technology. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Ten or more years of professional software engineering experience.
Proven expertise designing distributed, high-scale systems in production.
Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages.
Deep understanding of data modeling, system optimization, and performance tuning.
Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives across multiple business units.
Strong expertise in reliability engineering and distributed architectures.
Demonstrated leadership in architectural decision-making at enterprise scale.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture.

Nice To Haves

Public technical contributions (papers, talks, OSS leadership).
Experience driving multi-year transformation programs.
Familiarity with FinOps and large-scale cost optimization.
Exposure to regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government).
Advanced degree or equivalent industry recognition.

Responsibilities

Define enterprise-level architectural standards, system design principles, and engineering guardrails that shape engineering work across multiple business units.
Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that operate at global scale.
Architect multi-region, fault-tolerant, and globally distributed platforms with rigorous attention to availability, durability, and disaster recovery.
Drive enterprise modernization initiatives, including microservices transformation, platform consolidation, and legacy decommissioning.
Define API governance, data architecture, and service communication patterns adopted across the engineering organization.
Design systems for extreme scalability, availability, and security, including detailed capacity planning and resilience modeling.
Evaluate and select high-performance data storage solutions appropriate to each major workload class.
Lead reliability engineering and incident response improvements, raising the bar on operational excellence enterprise-wide.
Conduct deep architectural reviews and performance audits across multiple platforms.
Guide engineering teams on concurrency, scalability, observability, and optimization strategies.
Design observability and monitoring frameworks at enterprise scale, defining standards for metrics, logs, and traces that work consistently across many teams and many production environments.
Define DevOps, CI/CD, and automation strategy across engineering teams and platforms.
Partner with executive leadership and product management on technology roadmap decisions.
Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and contribute substantively to talent growth across the organization.
Drive innovation and continuously evaluate emerging technologies for strategic adoption.
Lead the resolution of critical system-level production issues that require deep architectural insight.