Principal Software Engineer
Confidential • pretoria, pretoria • Posted June 18, 2026
About the Role
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 Code and cloud environments
- You can communicate trade-offs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or similar
- Google Cloud Platform or equivalent cloud ecosystem experience
- Kubernetes and containerised workloads
- TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks
- Geospatial technologies, spatial databases, or Earth observa...