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# Principal Software Engineer - Compute Platform

- **Company:** Apollo Solutions, Inc.
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Job Scheduling, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Reliability of Systems, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Golang
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_36355a6e91793e3bf0bb8c040120fdd7

## About the Role

* Strong background in systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering
 * Strong development experience with languages such as Python, Java, Golang etc
 * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / container orchestration or custom schedulers,
 * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and/or large on-prem clusters
 * Experience with infrastructure automation (Terraform, internal tooling, CI/CD)
 * Comfortable operating at Principal / Staff level - driving architecture.
 * Strong communication skills and ability to work with highly technical stakeholders, * Enjoys owning foundational systems
 * Thinks deeply about compute efficiency and scale
 * Wants to operate at the intersection of engineering, research, and real-world impact

## Description

You'll be responsible for shaping how compute is provisioned, scaled, and optimized across thousands of research and production workloads - directly impacting researcher velocity, system reliability, and capital efficiency. It's a deep systems + platform engineering position for someone who enjoys solving hard problems at scale., * Architect and evolve a high-performance compute platform supporting large-scale research, simulation, and production workloads

 * Design systems for job scheduling, resource allocation, workload isolation, and cost/performance optimization
 * Partner closely with quant researchers and engineers to understand compute needs and remove infrastructure bottlenecks
 * Lead complex initiatives in AWS
 * Set technical direction, raise engineering standards, and mentor senior engineers
 * Own reliability, scalability, and observability of core compute services