Principal Software Engineer

About the role

Audinate is building the next generation of installed AV products, spanning on‑premise appliances and cloud services. As a Principal Software Engineer you will shape the architecture, turn roadmaps into concrete engineering decisions, and lead cross‑team technical choices.

Key responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions across appliance and cloud components, including state consistency and safe third‑party integrations.
• Collaborate with product managers and tech leads to translate goals into buildable systems and surface constraints.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks that span multiple teams.
• Improve test strategy, automation, and development processes.
• Prototype and roll out AI‑assisted engineering workflows.

Required profile

• Proven experience designing and shipping systems where edge devices and cloud services work together reliably.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, networking, protocol design, reliability and observability.
• Hands‑on coding ability; you prefer building prototypes over diagrams.
• Ability to quickly become productive with new tools and languages.
• Experience shaping architecture and engineering culture through credibility.

Required skills

• C++
• Rust
• TypeScript
• GraphQL
• MongoDB
• Redis
• AWS

What we offer

• Competitive salary, annual bonus and equity incentive plan.
• Flexible working model (3 days per week in office) with home office support.
• Volunteering leave and a diverse, values‑based culture.