Principal Engineer

Bellese Technologies

Principal Engineer establishing engineering vision and strategy at a digital healthcare services company. Focusing on optimizing software and improving healthcare outcomes through technology.

Posted 7/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $170,100 - $206,100 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AWS services and DevSecOps practices while driving technical direction and engineering strategy. Capable of translating strategic intent into scalable execution, focusing on developer experience and platform observability.

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AWS CDKCloudFormationDevSecOps MindsetAWS EKSKubernetes

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Hard Skills

AWS ServicesAPI GatewayDynamoDBS3SQSSNSNetworkingRoutingMonitoringDeployments

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingWillingness to Learn

Tools & Technologies

AWS CloudWatchDataDogPagerDutyAWS CodePipelineJenkinsGithub Actions

Industry Keywords

Public TrustCMSQuality ManagementHealthcare QualityBeneficiary and Family-Centered Care

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDNSDynamoDBEC2JenkinsKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a Principal Engineer, you will help establish the engineering vision and act as the translator between strategic intent and scalable execution.
This role drives technical direction and engineering strategy across enterprise engineering platforms by building the "paved path" - with a particular focus on developer experience, platform observability, and design and content enablement used by the QMARS team.
The Team you will be joining: QMARS
Our team is charged with maintaining and improving the software at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that supports the Quality Management and Review Systems (QMARS) program. QMARS online case management system supports the CMS Beneficiary and Family-Centered Care (BFCC) Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program. The QIO program is one of the largest federal programs dedicated to improving healthcare quality for Medicare beneficiaries across the country.
Our teams will continuously strive to modernize these systems while improving them in ways that reduce provider burden and minimize costs to CMS. We do this through HCD and Service design practices, product thinking, and skilled engineering. At Bellese, we’re relentlessly focused on enabling and empowering providers to focus on improving the quality and safety of patient care.

Requirements

What you’ll need

US Citizenship or Green Card only - we do not offer Sponsorship
US Residency for at least the past 3 years
Able to meet the requirements to hold a position of Public Trust, including successful completion of a US Government background investigation
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AWS CDK and CloudFormation
AWS services (API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS)
VPN (subnets, IP addressing, routing, etc)
Networking and Routing (Route53 and General DNS troubleshooting, e.g. nslookup, A records, CNAME records, etc)
AWS EKS and Kubernetes
Willingness to learn new services
"DevSecOps" security mindset (Shift left security)
AWS ECS/ECR, Lambda, EC2, Step Functions (Nice to haves)
Monitoring like AWS CloudWatch, DataDog, PagerDuty (Nice to haves)
Deployments like AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, Github Actions (Nice to haves)
Security groups, IAM Roles (Nice to haves)
Someone who looks for problems to solve versus waiting to have work assigned to them

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote First, Remote Only Culture
Four weeks paid time off yearly (prorated based on start date for the first year)
10 paid floating company holidays
Flexible schedule
Work from home setup including a Macbook
Collaborative, learning environment
Medical, dental, and company-paid vision insurance
Optional HSA account with some medical plans and a company contribution
Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance coverages
Company paid short and long term life insurance
Optional critical illness and accident insurance
401K plan with 3% safe harbor contribution
Wellness resources and virtual care
Perks Plus employee discounts