Principal Software Engineer

About us:

Intuitive is an innovation-led engineering company delivering business outcomes for 100’s of Enterprises globally. With the reputation of being a Tiger Team & 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
- Platform Engineering (IaC/EaC, DevSecOps & SRE)
- Cloud Native Engineering, Migration to Cloud, VMware Exit
- FinOps

Data & AI/ML

- Data (Cloud Native / DataBricks / Snowflake)
- Machine Learning, AI/GenAI

Cybersecurity

- Infrastructure Security
- Application Security
- Data Security
- AI/Model 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

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