Principal Software Engineer

Confidential • pretoria, city of tshwane metropolitan municipality • Posted June 18, 2026

About the Role


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 Code and cloud environments You can communicate trade-offs clearly to both e...