Principal Software Engineer

Company: Talent Software Services
Location: Round Rock
Posted on: May 25, 2025

Job Description:

Principal Software Engineer

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Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Principal Software Engineer for a contract position that can be worked 100% remotely. The opportunity will be one year with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary: The Platform Administrator will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, and support of the BigID platform and internally developed applications. This role includes hardware support, application upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and ensuring the overall performance and security of the systems.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:BigID Platform Support:

Administer and maintain the BigID platform, ensuring its availability, performance, and security.
Configure and customize the BigID platform to meet organizational data governance and privacy requirements.
Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement necessary updates and patches .
Internally Developed Applications:
Provide administration and support for internally developed applications, ensuring their optimal performance and reliability.
Collaborate with development teams to deploy new features and updates.
Hardware Support:Manage and maintain hardware infrastructure supporting the applications.
Coordinate with platform team to perform regular hardware upgrades and replacements as needed.
Application Upgrades:
Plan and execute application upgrades, ensuring minimal disruption to services.
Test and validate new versions of applications before deployment.


Vulnerability Remediation:Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities in both BigID and internally developed applications.
Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with organizational policies.
Documentation and Training:
Develop and maintain documentation for system configurations, processes, and procedures.
Provide training and support to end-users and stakeholders on the BigID platform and other applications


Designs, codes, tests, debugs and documents software according to DellA--s systems quality standards, policies and procedures. Analyzes business needs and creates software solutions. Responsible for preparing design documentation. Prepares test data for unit, string and parallel testing.
Evaluates and recommends software and hardware solutions to meet user needs. Resolves customer issues with software solutions and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements. Works with business and development teams to clarify requirements to ensure testability. Drafts, revises, and maintains test plans, test cases, and automated test scripts. Executes test procedures according to software requirements specifications Logs defects and makes recommendations to address defects. Retests software corrections to ensure problems are resolved. Documents evolution of testing procedures for future replication. May conduct performance and scalability testing.
RESPONSIBILITIES: Plans, conducts and leads assignments generally involving moderate, high budgets projects or more than one project.
Manages user expectations regarding appropriate milestones and deadlines.
Assists in training, work assignment and checking of less experienced developers. Serves as technical consultant to leaders in the IT organization and functional user groups.
Subject matter expert in one or more technical programming specialties; employs expertise as a generalist of a specialist. Performs estimation efforts on complex projects and tracks progress. Works on the highest level of problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
Documents, evaluates and researches test results; documents evolution of testing scripts for future replication. Identifies, recommends and implements changes to enhance the effectiveness of quality assurance strategies.


Qualifications:8+ Experience with containerization and orchestration with tools like Kubernetes and docker for managing and deploying applications
5-8 years' Experience with upgrading vendor products preferably data governance tools
8+ Understanding of system administration and networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP)
8+ Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools
Familiarity with cloud platforms like Azure, or Google Cloud


Preferred:Good communication skills to concisely articulate problems to vendor technical teams
Strong dedication to get the job done and resolve technical issues in working across teams


If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!

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