
Principal Software Engineer – Desktop and Mobile Applications
HARMAN International
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: California • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $134,250 - $196,900 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect, develop and maintain high-performance desktop and mobile applications for HiFi audio enthusiasts across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux, driving technical direction and ensuring seamless cross-platform experiences.
- Lead cross-platform development initiatives using primarily C# and .NET-based technologies, applying deep expertise to improve scalability, maintainability, and long-term product evolution.
- Design and optimize complex systems that manage audio content, music metadata, and low-latency audio streaming across local networks, leveraging your mastery of network protocols and concurrency models to deliver robust solutions.
- Serve as a technical leader and mentor, guiding team members in best practices for architecture, performance profiling, and troubleshooting, while raising the overall technical bar.
- Proactively identify and address risks in project delivery, communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders, and influence decisions to align engineering efforts with business goals.
- Drive innovation in audio streaming and system architecture, recommending and implementing advanced solutions that enhance user experience, performance, and reliability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience owning end-to-end delivery of complex projects.
- Extensive experience with C# and .NET based technologies.
- Strong systems software understanding of data storage, processing, memory management, filesystems, networking, and concurrency.
- Sound understanding of network protocols and cross-platform development (Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux).
- Experience with automated pipelines for continuous build and integration systems (CI/CD).
- Familiarization with containerization and virtualization technologies (Docker, VMware, HyperV, etc) and packaging software for these environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other related field is preferred.
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Hard Skills & Tools
C#.NETaudio streamingnetwork protocolsconcurrency modelsdata storagememory managementfilesystemsautomated pipelinesCI/CD
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationrisk managementproblem-solvinginfluencing decisionscollaborationproject delivery