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# Principal Software Engineer, Workload Orchestration (Distributed Compute))

- **Company:** nTopology Inc
- **Location:** Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €165,000 - €215,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Quality, Scientific Computating, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, High Performance Computing, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8f82e9794666bc11

## About the Role

* 8+ years software engineering with increasing scope and demonstrated impact across multiple teams
 * Deep platform/infrastructure expertise: APIs, abstractions, system architecture, performance at scale
 * Track record of improving software quality and engineering velocity, not just building features
 * Leadership without authority- you build consensus through technical credibility and clarity
 * Experience mentoring engineers and elevating team capabilities

Valued:

 * High-performance computing, scientific computing, or CAD/CAM systems
 * Programming language design or domain-specific languages
 * Working with technically sophisticated customers

You're Probably NOT a Fit If:

 * You prefer deep specialization over broad platform thinking
 * You want clearly defined scope rather than self-directed problem-finding
 * You need significant structure and direction to be productive

## Description

You'll be the "solver" for our most complex technical challenges. This isn't a narrowly-scoped domain expert role or a focus on quarterly deliverables-you'll architect solutions over 1-3 years that compound in value, define our platform direction, and unlock entirely new capabilities.
What makes this unusual: You'll have genuine autonomy to identify the highest-leverage problems across the entire platform. Your "domain" is making the system coherent-from customer interfaces to infrastructure to how we build software. You'll enable deep specialists to build increasingly sophisticated features without the system collapsing under complexity., Year 1: Identify and solve 2-3 critical architectural bottlenecks limiting the team today. Drive at least one foundational platform initiative from design through deployment. Establish yourself as the technical escalation point.
Years 2-3: Define architectural direction for major platform capabilities that will serve us for 3+ years. Lead multi-quarter initiatives that fundamentally change how we build or how customers use our platform. Your impact is measured by what others can now accomplish.
This is compound-interest work, early decisions multiply in value over time.