Principal Software Engineer - Platform Services (.NET)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Platform Services, .NET/Azure): Own reliability, observability, and modernization of the services layer for Certent Equity Management platform with an accent on resilience patterns, event-driven messaging, and cloud-native Azure services. Focus on eliminating legacy anti-patterns, defining SLO/SLI, implementing AI-first workflows, and sequencing migrations across multiple ecosystems.

Location: Remote (USA, Canada)

Salary: $124,000–$156,000 USD Annual (United States)

Company

Global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions that empower finance and data teams across 32,000+ organizations.

What you will do

• Own platform reliability and observability: structured logging, distributed tracing, SLO/SLI dashboards, and alerting across all services.
• Implement resilience patterns like circuit breakers, retries, graceful degradation, and event-driven messaging to replace legacy anti-patterns.
• Assess service portfolio, build modernization roadmap, and recommend Azure cloud-native services in partnership with architecture team.
• Migrate legacy .NET services to modern frameworks while maintaining production stability across ecosystems.
• Write and review production code in C#/.NET, Oracle SQL/PL/SQL; debug cross-service issues; enforce testing standards.
• Champion AI-first engineering: integrate agentic tooling, target 50%+ AI-authored PRs, coach team on adoption.
• Mentor on cloud-native patterns, resilience, .NET modernization; contribute to technical leadership forums.

Requirements

• 8+ years software engineering in enterprise SaaS, as Principal/Senior Principal Engineer.
• Deep C#/.NET expertise across framework generations, with legacy-to-modern migration experience.
• Hands-on Azure cloud architecture for evaluating/implementing cloud-native services/patterns.
• Strong Oracle proficiency: complex SQL, PL/SQL, performance tuning at scale.
• Experience with observability (logging, tracing, health checks), resilience patterns, event-driven infra replacing polling/file coupling.
• Ownership of shared libraries; re-platforming to cloud-native/containerized workloads.
• AI-first mindset with hands-on agentic tooling and team adoption track record.
• Bachelor's in CS/Engineering or equivalent.

Nice to have

• Background in financial services, equity compensation, or regulated domains.
• Experience with FIX protocol or financial messaging.
• Infrastructure as Code, containerization/orchestration, Azure DevOps CI/CD, NuGet.
• Database schema migration tooling, background job scheduling in .NET.

Culture & Benefits

• High-energy, high-performance global team.
• Pay transparency and fair compensation; bonus eligibility for non-sales roles.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
• Background checks required where permitted.