Hiring: Principal Engineer - Software Systems Company: Vantor Location: Westminster, CO Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 12:00:00 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Aerospace Engineering, Event-Driven, Kubernetes, Systems Engineering, Systems Integration About the job Experience: •Distributed data systems and event-driven architectures. •AI-assisted software development and agentic engineering workflows. •High-availability, mission-critical, or operational software platforms. •Geospatial, aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or other complex mission domains. •Developer platforms, platform engineering, or internal engineering infrastructure. Required Skills: •Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, cross-domain software systems. •Define system architecture, integration strategy, and technical direction across multiple engineering teams. •Translate ambiguous customer, mission, and business problems into scalable technical solutions. •Lead architecture trade studies and make consequential technical decisions across competing priorities. •Drive system decomposition, interface definition, dependency management, and integration planning for large distributed systems. •Partner with Product to validate customer needs and ensure delivered capabilities solve the right problems. •Identify architectural, integration, operational, and delivery risks early and drive mitigation before they become execution problems. •Shape technical direction across a product portfolio or strategic technical domain. Qualifications: •Must be a United States citizen. •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience solving complex software systems problems. •Significant experience architecting and delivering large-scale, software-intensive systems. •Demonstrated success leading major cross-functional or cross-domain technical initiatives. •Comprehensive expertise in modern software architecture and distributed systems. •In-depth knowledge of software development, integration, deployment, and operational readiness. •Demonstrated capacity to communicate effectively with software engineers, architects, product leaders, customers, senior leaders, and executives. •Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and create alignment across multiple teams. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!