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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** ITHAKA STUDIOS, LLC
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $129,076 - $161,345
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Logic, Databases, Data Deduplication, Programming Tools, Digital Content, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Messaging Systems, NoSQL, Systems Integration, Datadog, Enterprise Software Applications, Spring Cloud, Backend, Kubernetes, Api Design
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.military.com/career/386051/principal-software-engineer-new-york-ny-new-york

## About the Role

* Experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems in production. \n
 * Demonstrated experience defining technology strategy, leading cross-team architectural initiatives, and influencing technical direction through collaboration and sound engineering judgment. \n
 * Experience balancing hands-on engineering with long-term architecture, platform evolution, product strategy, and organizational priorities. \n
 * Strong product thinking with the ability to connect backend and search strategy to user needs, business goals, product outcomes, and measurable impact. \n, * Strong experience designing and operating cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, modern observability tooling, relational and NoSQL databases, caching technologies, and messaging platforms. \n
 * Experience building reusable platform capabilities, engineering standards, developer tooling, automation, and AI-assisted development workflows that improve engineering effectiveness across multiple teams. \n
 * Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build alignment, influence technical direction, and communicate architectural strategy, tradeoffs, product implications, and investment recommendations to engineering, product, and executive stakeholders. \n, * 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, with deep expertise in backend architecture and technical leadership, including leading a platform through multiple years of evolution. \n
 * Demonstrated experience defining technology strategy, leading cross-team architectural initiatives, and producing written strategy and architecture documents that led to adopted decisions. \n
 * Track record of owning the architecture of systems where correctness has direct financial consequences, such as order management, billing, payments, royalties, or revenue systems. \n
 * Deep practical experience with consistency in distributed and integrated systems: idempotent processing, deduplication, outbox and event-driven patterns, reconciliation, and recovery from partial failure. \n
 * Experience incrementally improving a production platform while it continues to serve the business, such as moving business logic out of the database or batch jobs, or decomposing and consolidating services. \n
 * Experience integrating with enterprise systems (CRM, Finance, tax engines) and with external partners through file-based and API-based contracts. \n
 * Demonstrated ability to define and drive reliability programs with measurable outcomes, including SLOs, operational metrics, and incident practice. \n
 * Preferred: domain experience in publishing, digital content licensing, royalty or rights management, or revenue operations. \n