Principal Software Engineer – AI Cloud Platform

**📍 Sydney \| Melbourne** **💰 $180,000 \- $230,000** I'm looking for Staff or Principal Software Engineers who want to set technical direction and stay close to the code. You should have a blend of hands\-on software engineering, technical architecture and cloud\-native experience. **The kind of work on offer** * Designing and building the core of customer\-facing platforms: APIs, backend services and the frontends and mobile apps people use every day * **Owning architecture** for identity and access, billing and payments, integrations, and data\-heavy systems * Building **cloud\-native** , multi\-tenant products at real scale * Setting engineering standards through design reviews, code quality, testing and CI/CD * Mentoring engineers and influencing how whole teams build software **What I'm looking for** * 8\+ years in software engineering, operating at Staff, Principal or Tech Lead level * Strong backend experience in Node.js, Python, Go, Java, C\# or similar * Frontend or mobile experience with React, React Native, Vue, Angular or similar * A track record designing **scalable APIs** and **distributed systems** * Exposure to AI or ML infrastructure, GPU platforms or high\-performance computing * Experience building and running production systems in **AWS** , Azure or GCP * Strong security fundamentals, for example OAuth2, OIDC, SAML and secure session management * Clear communication with engineers, product and senior leaders brittany@nuagetg.io 📧