Title: Principal Software Engineer
Role: Distributed Systems & Communications
Location: Cambridgeshire
Salary: £60-£80k
Platform Recruitment has partnered with an innovative technology company developing mission-critical systems used by organisations worldwide. They're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help shape the technical direction of their platform.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead architecture and implementation of systems in C#/.NET
* Build low-latency applications handling high-volume data traffic
* Drive technical vision and mentor engineers across the team
* Oversee code reviews, coding standards and CI/CD pipelines
Key Requirements:
1. 10+ years C# and .NET Core
2. Strong distributed systems and microservices background
3. Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ, Kafka or similar messaging technologies
4. Proficiency with TCP/IP, gRPC and high-availability protocols
5. Performance tuning, concurrency and multithreading expertise
6. Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD familiarity