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[Remote] Chief Engineer Principal – Software
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oshkosh Corporation is hiring a Chief Engineer Principal – Software to lead architecture and hands-on development for its next-generation cloud-native connected-vehicle telematics platform. The role develops cloud services, APIs, event-driven applications, and data-intensive solutions while setting engineering standards, mentoring engineers, collaborating across teams, and optimizing platform reliability, security, performance, and cost.
Responsibilities
- Architecture leadership – Lead the software architecture for connected vehicle’s Azure cloud platform across cloud backend, data, APIs, web and mobile integrations. Make pragmatic decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, performance, built in quality and cost
- Hands-on engineering - Develop cloud-native services, APIs, event-driven processing and data-intensive applications
- Engineering excellence - Establish architectural and coding standards. Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality
- Cross-functional delivery - Partner with embedded engineers, product owners and engineering leads to translate product needs into sound technical solutions, remove roadblocks and help team successfully deliver sprint commitments
- Platform optimization — Improve availability, latency, security, operational readiness and cost efficiency through continuous improvements
Skills
- Education - Bachelor's degree in Computer engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience developing backend software and APIs for cloud native applications
- Strong programming skills in C#, .NET Core or similar programming language
- Experience with Azure cloud technologies, including Azure functions, Event Grid, Event Hub, Azure Web PubSub, and Azure Communication Service, Azure Service Bus
- Experience designing cloud data stores ADX, SQL, time-series data, and related data services such as CosmosDB and Redis
- Experience deploying containerized services (Docker, Azure Container Apps), CI/CD and infrastructure as code such as GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise
- Experience with managing and optimizing Azure cloud cost
- Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging patterns and real-time data processing
- Experience building connected vehicle, automotive, industrial IoT or telematics platforms
- Experience designing secure, observable cloud services using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and cloud security best practices
- Experience with Linux command-line environments, including system administration, troubleshooting, and maintaining self-hosted GitHub Actions runners for CI/CD pipelines
- Strong collaboration, problem-solving and communication skills
- Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, balance architectural rigor with delivery speed
Benefits
- Remote work
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