💼 Full-Time Position

Principal Software Engineer

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Confidential
📍 pretoria, city of tshwane metropolitan municipality, South-Africa
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Location
pretoria, South-Africa
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Posted
May 30, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description


SUMMARY:
Tired of being the smartest person in the room with no room to prove it?
This is a hands-on principal engineering role — not a glorified meeting chair. You'll be making real architectural decisions on cloud-native platforms that process large-scale geospatial and Earth data, working alongside AI and data engineering teams, and actually shipping code. If you want technical ownership with global impact, this is it.

POSITION INFO:
What you need:

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including senior or staff-level technical leadership
  • Strong Python backend experience — modern frameworks, production systems
  • Distributed systems and cloud-native architecture — you've designed and built them, not just read about them
  • Scalable API design and asynchronous systems
  • Solid on relational databases and large-scale data architectures
  • Infrastructure as ...