Principal Software Engineer

Role Overview

Join ATPCO 's newly formed Pricing Platform Team to architect and build a next-generation pricing engine that will power airline retailing across the world. As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll lead from the front, solving complex technical challenges in distributed systems, performance engineering, and large-scale data processing.
What You Will Do

Design and build a high-performance, fault-tolerant pricing engine from the ground up, solve complex challenges in distributed systems, scalability, and reliability, and work across the stack from low-level system interactions to distributed algorithms and APIs.
Why It Might Be a Fit

Ideal candidate has expert-level programming skills in C/C++, Rust, Go, or Python, with strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and systems design, and a deep understanding of Linux systems, performance, and resource management.
Requirements

- Expert-level programming skills in C/C++, Rust, Go, or Python

- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and systems design

- Deep understanding of Linux systems, performance, and resource management

- Proven experience building and operating fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale

- Strong problem-solving skills in complex, ambiguous environments

- Excellent written communication and collaboration skills in a remote, async environment

Benefits

- 401(k) with Generous Employer Match

- Comprehensive Benefits (Medical, Dental, and Vision)

- Flexible work arrangements

- Work-life balance

- Diversity, equity, and inclusion policies

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