8th Light

8th Light

Principal Software Engineer (Remote)

United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$152k-$189kDetected 19 hours ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoC#RubyScalaReact.NETSQLDatabricksDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningData EngineeringNLPComputer VisionRAGAgentic AIMLOpsA/B TestingLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • We take on hard software challenges and turn them into durable results.
  • 8th Lights thrive in an environment that champions continuous education, fueling our growth through mentorship and hands-on work.
  • If this kind of work and our kind of people energizes you, you've found the right place.

Responsibilities

  • Rapidly building trust with clients, demonstrating technical expertise and understanding of their domain and objectives
  • Building your network and maintaining relationships with clients and other industry leaders within your domain
  • Partner with account teams on planning, opportunity identification, stakeholder relationships, and pre-sales scope shaping
  • Demonstrating leadership in scalable system design, modular architecture, and platform- or product-oriented development
  • Applying architectural patterns to evaluate tradeoffs and drive clear, documented design rationale
  • Platform engineering: building reusable software foundations, internal developer platforms, and infrastructure that other teams build on
  • Provided mentorship and team support at scale, while sharing knowledge and improving team practices

Requirements

  • You've shown long-term repeated success on a variety of projects, typically over the course of 10+ years.
  • You are a trusted expert and leader, often called upon to guide ambiguous initiatives and architect scalable solutions.
  • In your previous experience, you have:
  • Taken AI and agentic systems from prototype to production, with a strong understanding of infrastructure, authentication, and observability
  • A track record of understanding, assessing, and embracing new tooling and trends within the software industry

Nice to have

  • Strongly Preferred Skills

Compensation

  • Annual financial stipend and time allotment for learning & development

Benefits

  • Built or integrated AI/ML features into products and systems, including recommendation engines, NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics, RAG pipelines, and agents
  • Driving platform engineering work at the client level, connecting long-term technical vision to what ships
  • Leading platform strategy and delivery across diverse platform types, connecting long-term vision to what ships

Company info

  • At 8th Light, we bring life to the best ideas.
  • Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions consultancy that partners with organizations from early-stage startups to the world's largest companies. We take on hard software challenges and turn them into durable results. We build agentic products, the platforms they run on, and the engineering and design at every layer.
  • Our commitment to quality means we deliver solutions we're truly proud of, while our curiosity sparks innovation and breakthrough thinking. 8th Lights thrive in an environment that champions continuous education, fueling our growth through mentorship and hands-on work. We foster an open, collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients.
  • Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, we are a technology solutions consultancy that partners with organizations from early-stage startups to the world's largest companies.
  • We build agentic products, the platforms they run on, and the engineering and design at every layer.
  • Our commitment to quality means we deliver solutions we're truly proud of, while our curiosity sparks innovation and breakthrough thinking.
  • We foster an open, collaborative culture grounded in honesty that builds trust, and believe true success is measured by the outcomes we create for our clients.
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