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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Cigna
- **Location:** Paterson, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Performance Management, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, RabbitMQ, Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Low Latency
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_c8a01b41981856de498f9e9fbe090b61

## About the Role

* Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
 * 9+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way
 * The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint
 * Ability to learn new technology systems quickly and apply them effectively
 * 8 years that taught you which corners can be cut
 * A Cigna mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
 * A Paterson network, or the hustle to build one from scratch

## Description

* Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
 * Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across NJ engineering teams
 * Mentor the principal cohort through their first real Ruby on Rails on-call at Cigna
 * Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence
 * Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Paterson, NJ production without dropping the baton
 * Read the RabbitMQ stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
 * Translate fuzzy product wishes from Cigna stakeholders into shippable Kotlin services