Lead engineering teams in full-stack application development, migrate applications to AWS, and refine DevOps practices. Key focus on security and scalability.
Job Purpose and Impact
We are seeking a highly experienced software delivery SME to join the Software Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE). As aPrincipal Software Engineer, you will lead from the center-playing a pivotal leadership and public-facing role within the engineering community.
You will be responsible for helping shape and elevate Cargill's digital ecosystem by guiding engineering teams on full-stack application development, modern software engineering practices, platform adoption, and tooling enablement. A key focus for this role will be triaging issues, rapidly experimenting and prototyping solutions, and having no hesitation to initiate code in order to test ideas and drive quick resolutions.
You will also serve on the front lines of a large-scale migration of approximately 700 applications from on-premises environments to AWS, providing technical leadership in all CoE related interest throughout this complex transformation.
This is a highly visible, hands-on role where technical excellence, communication skills, rapid problem-solving, and a proactive leadership mindset are essential.
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
We are seeking a highly experienced software delivery SME to join the Software Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE). As aPrincipal Software Engineer, you will lead from the center-playing a pivotal leadership and public-facing role within the engineering community.
You will be responsible for helping shape and elevate Cargill's digital ecosystem by guiding engineering teams on full-stack application development, modern software engineering practices, platform adoption, and tooling enablement. A key focus for this role will be triaging issues, rapidly experimenting and prototyping solutions, and having no hesitation to initiate code in order to test ideas and drive quick resolutions.
You will also serve on the front lines of a large-scale migration of approximately 700 applications from on-premises environments to AWS, providing technical leadership in all CoE related interest throughout this complex transformation.
This is a highly visible, hands-on role where technical excellence, communication skills, rapid problem-solving, and a proactive leadership mindset are essential.
Key Accountabilities
- Technical Leadership and Community Engagement: Serve as a visible leader for the Software Engineering CoE, actively engaging with product teams, platform teams, and leadership stakeholders to drive engineering best practices, represent CoE interests, and foster adoption of shared tools and platforms.
- Application Development and Modernization: Apply advanced software engineering patterns and principles to design, develop, integrate, maintain, and troubleshoot modern software solutions with a strong focus on security, scalability, and developer experience.
- Support for AWS Migration: Actively participate in the ongoing migration of ~700 applications from on-premises to AWS, providing technical expertise in cloud architecture, troubleshooting migration-related challenges, and ensuring operational excellence post-migration.
- Automation & Tooling: Lead efforts to implement and refine CI/CD pipelines, automation practices, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps practices to enable efficient, secure, and consistent application delivery.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 10 years of related software engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in automating CI/CD pipelines, full-stack application development, infrastructure as code, and cloud migration (AWS highly preferred).
- Hands-on experience coding with Java, JavaScript, React, Golang, and ability to adapt to other languages as needed.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working in or closely with platform engineering teams, leveraging shared services, artifact repositories, and unified observability frameworks.
Top Skills
AWS
Ci/Cd
DevOps
Go
Infrastructure As Code
Java
JavaScript
React
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