Principal Software Engineer (Go)

About the Company:

Stable Kernel is a technology services firm and custom software developer building scalable software solutions for cutting-edge, innovative enterprises to move their business forward. We are headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

We’re a privately held, Great Place to Work Certified Company™ with a multi-award-winning culture and an impressive 10-plus-year trajectory of sustainable growth. At Stable Kernel, we support our employees in ways that help them do some of the best work of their lives.

About the Role:

As a Stable Kernel Principal Software Engineer , you play an essential role in setting our portfolio of world-class clients up for success through the development and delivery of their most innovative, transformational initiatives. You will collaborate daily with other engineers and product team members, make decisions that influence the path of a product roadmap, leverage software development best practices, and become a more well-rounded engineer as you learn new technologies. Your knowledgeable practice, reliability, and consultative nature make you an engineer that stakeholders and teammates trust.

Principal Software Engineers may be classified as individual contributors or people managers with individual contributor responsibilities.

Core Responsibilities Include:

Technical Impact:

Designing and implementing exemplary solutions regarding scalability and cost-effectiveness by making trade-offs between opportunity and complexity.

Setting standards for codebase health and promoting best practices throughout the organization.

Business Alignment:

Clarifying strategic outcomes and influencing roadmaps and projects.

Identifying, suggesting, and driving improvements in your customers' end-to-end experience.

Aiding in estimating work for new business with more unknowns and coaching others in estimation best practices.

Interacting with Others:

Coordinating across the entire company.

Influencing the entire organization to make changes to support your work.

Advising teams across the company.

Autonomy Ambiguity:

Designing a long-term roadmap with no direction.

Translating customer and business needs and strategic direction into projects and consistently simplifying high-complexity situations.

Coaching and mentoring others in tackling ambiguity.

Problem-Solving:

Planning, communicating, and executing to solve our most challenging problems.

Ensuring alignment with long-term objectives, fostering a culture of informed decision-making and innovation.

Decomposing strategic direction into projects:

Anticipating most risks and driving simplification to mitigate risks ahead of time.

Escalating issues while solving them in parallel ensuring others are informed.

Leadership:

identifying and nurturing potential in others

providing strategic guidance

helping develop career paths for team members

Setting the strategic direction for projects or areas of technology, leading multiple project teams, and influencing decision-making at higher organizational levels.

Exhibiting strong capabilities in stakeholder management, negotiating, and problem-solving in complex scenarios.

Mentoring and developing other leaders within the team, fostering a culture of innovation, and contributing significantly to organizational goals.

Proposing new organization-level processes to improve key areas such as team throughput, employee happiness, or product engagement.

Driving best practices across the organization.

Exhibiting exceptional mentoring abilities and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement by

Leading projects.

Deep Expertise With:

Go: Architect and deliver high-performance, distributed systems using Go; apply advanced concurrency patterns, performance tuning, and service design principles to build scalable, resilient backend platforms.

AWS: Design and lead cloud-native architectures on AWS, leveraging services such as ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and IAM to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available solutions.

Datadog: Implement comprehensive observability strategies using Datadog, including application performance monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, log aggregation, dashboards, and alerting to proactively identify and resolve production issues.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code practices and tools (e.g., Terraform or AWS CloudFormation), enabling repeatable, secure, and automated infrastructure provisioning across environments.

Strong experience architecting, designing, and implementing backend services with an emphasis on high test coverage at all levels – unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end.

Experience creating and executing automated tests within CI/CD pipelines using quality gates to ensure reliability and maintainability (e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins).

Experience with test infrastructure and environments that support backend service vali…