Job Description
Intuitive is an
innovation-led engineering company delivering business outcomes
for 100’s of Enterprises globally. With the reputation of being a
Tiger Team
and a
Trusted Partner
of enterprise technology leaders, we help solve the most complex Digital Transformation challenges across following Intuitive Superpowers:
Modernization & Migration
Application & Database Modernization
Cloud Native Engineering, Migration to Cloud, VMware Exit
FinOps
Data & AI/ML
Cybersecurity
Infrastructure Security
Application Security
Data Security
SDx & Digital Workspace (M365, G-suite)
SDDC, SD-WAN, SDN, NetSec, Wireless/Mobility
Email, Collaboration, Directory Services, Shared Files Services
Intuitive Services:
Professional and Advisory Services
Elastic Engineering Services
Managed Services
Talent Acquisition & Platform Resell Services
About the job:
Title:
Principal Software Engineer & Team Lead
Start Date:
Immediate
Position Type:
Contract/ Full-time Employment
Location:
Remote across Canada/ USA
About the Role
We are building an infrastructure management platform from scratch—and we need a Principal Engineer who writes code, not just designs systems. You will build the core control plane in Typescript & Go: reconciliation loops, declarative APIs, state machines, and the primitives that make infrastructure programmable. You will also own the developer-facing frontend in TypeScript and Next.js. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You will ship production code daily, own critical subsystems end‑to‑end, and set the technical bar for the team.
Key Responsibilities
As a Principal Software Engineer and team lead, you will:
Own architecture and system design for core platform services, ensuring they meet reliability, security, compliance, and performance requirements.
Lead end‑to‑end delivery of critical platform capabilities, from technical discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing improvements.
Drive technical excellence in the codebase, setting standards for code quality, testing, performance, and observability, and ensuring they are adopted across the team.
Mentor and grow senior engineers, providing clear technical direction, constructive feedback, and opportunities for ownership.
Collaborate with product, platform, and security leaders to translate business needs into technical roadmaps, and make thoughtful trade‑offs between speed, safety, and maintainability.
Continuously improve platform operability, including deployment strategies, telemetry and alerting, incident response practices, and post‑incident learning.
Identify and mitigate technical risks, proactively addressing scaling, reliability, and security concerns before they impact customers.
Required Qualifications
10+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in senior/staff/principal roles shipping production systems.
Expert‑level TypeScript proficiency—you can build complex, type‑safe applications and reason deeply about the type system.
Expert‑level Next.js experience building production full‑stack applications with SSR, API routes, and modern React patterns.
Strong Go experience for backend services, CLIs, and systems‑level tooling.
Deep expertise in API design—RESTful APIs, versioning, error handling, and building interfaces developers love to use.
Experience building control planes, reconciliation loops, or state machines for infrastructure automation.
Strong understanding of distributed systems principles and how to design for eventual consistency and failure.
Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and infrastructure‑as‑code tools.
Proven ability to own and deliver complex systems end‑to‑end, from design through production operation.
Track record of mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and raising the bar for code quality.
Experience building developer tools, SDKs, or CLIs that other engineers depend on.
Strong opinions on testing, observability, and building systems that are easy to debug and operate.
Preferred Qualifications
Contributions to open‑source infrastructure or developer tooling projects.
Experience building multi‑tenant platforms with tenant isolation and resource management.
Deep PostgreSQL experience—schema design, query optimization, and handling high‑write workloads.
Background with event‑driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, NATS, etc.).
Experience designing secure systems with RBAC, secrets management, and compliance requirements.
Performance engineering skills—profiling and optimizing Go and TypeScript applications.
Prior experience at infrastructure or developer tools companies.
What We're Looking For
You write code that others learn from and have strong opinions on building maintainable systems.
You understand how infrastructure works and use that knowledge to build robust platforms.
You obsess over API design and developer experience.
You reason about distributed systems holistically and design for operability from day one.
You raise the bar for engineering quality and mentor engineers to grow.
You've shipped complex systems and know what it takes to go from design to production
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