
Principal Software Engineer
Safran
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Brea • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $165,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Contribute to the design, creation, development and improvement of software features, packaging, tools, testing, test automation, continuous integration, delivery, documentation and building of complex distributed systems in a low power, heat conscious environment
- Build and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, system-level)
- Triage, debug, and resolve issues
- Take ownership of quality and drive continuous improvement
- Provide accurate estimates and deliver on commitments with transparency
- Collaborate with stakeholders, users, and teams on design, implementation, and approvals
- Engage actively in meetings and technical discussions
- Coordinate with internal teams to support product success
- Prepare and present technical for large and diverse audiences
- Follow and help improve SDLC and organizational processes
- Provide guidance, mentoring, and training within the software team, while offering support across the broader product development organization
- Lead and drive the technical direction of complex software projects when needed, offering expert guidance to development teams
- Ensure accountability for technical outcomes across cross-functional teams by making critical decisions and taking ownership of overall project success
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience in a related field
- 15+ years of software development experience with one or more of the following:
- - Software development in C/C++ on Linux/UNIX, embedded, or Windows (.NET, C#, JavaScript, SQL)
- - Modern tech stack: Qt/QML, Node.js, Golang, React, Typescript, Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, MQTT, Microservices
- Skilled in managing containers and virtual machines using Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and other orchestration platforms and compute primitives
- Experienced in designing and maintaining high-performance databases—structured, unstructured, and in-memory—optimized for constrained and dynamically changing environments
- Proficient in security engineering, including system and network security, authentication protocols, cryptography, and securing databases and applications in regulated environments
- Experience refactoring/rearchitecting monolithic solutions into distributed microservices, containerized or serverless with heavy API design and implementation strategies
- Experiences with any of the following languages, technologies and techniques would be advantageous
- - IPC, RPC, sockets, A/V players
- - Networking & protocols: Ethernet, ARINC 429, RS-485, I2C, SPI, MDIO, CAN
- - Experience with npm, Bower or Webpack
- - Debugging & troubleshooting
- **Soft Skills**
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills
- Ability to negotiate and compromise
- Maintain a positive attitude when facing adversity
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Be a team player and work collaboratively (e.g., MOB and/or pair program)
- Self-directed, proactive, organized, and detail-oriented
- Take initiative to suggest and drive organizational improvements
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills
- Ability to efficiently resolve problems and seek assistance when stuck (i.e., fail fast)
- Ability to accomplish a multitude of tasks
- Desire to continuously learn
- Embrace change and be comfortable working in a fluid and changing environment
- Ability to use discretion and independent judgment when making decisions on behalf of the company
Benefits
- The starting pay range for this position is $165,000 - $180,000, however, base pay and title offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
CC++LinuxUNIX.NETC#JavaScriptSQLQtQML
Soft Skills
organizational skillsleadership skillsnegotiationpresentation skillscollaborationself-directedproactivedetail-orientedproblem-solvingcontinuous learning
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in EngineeringBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science