Principal Software Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of complex real-time communications software across mobile, desktop, web, and virtual desktop environments.
• Build secure, reliable, reusable native client libraries and SDKs across Windows, iOS, and Android.
• Drive cross-team technical direction, resolve dependencies and architectural tradeoffs, and develop reusable engineering patterns and tools.
• Improve AI-assisted engineering, development infrastructure, documentation, automation, validation, and workflows.
• Collaborate on requirements, designs, features, testing, rollouts, monitoring, and telemetry; use production data to improve systems.
• Participate in design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and support on-call and site reliability response.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree and 8+ years of engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with native mobile or client software, SDKs and libraries, complex multi-platform architecture, real-time communications, media or networking, and production software quality.
• Experience with lifecycle automation, developer infrastructure, AI-assisted engineering, technical leadership, cross-team collaboration, or mentoring.

Compensation

• The typical base pay range across Canada is CAD $142,400–$257,500 per year.