# Senior Principal Software Engineer

Hiring organization: [Rocket Software](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/rocket-software)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/ebcf333c-bbcd-49f7-b8db-56542685f9a5

Listed on Rocket Software's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: United States
- Salary: 143000 – 193050 USD per year

## Summary

A hands-on technical leader role guiding the evolution of enterprise workload automation and batch processing solutions across hybrid cloud and mainframe environments. This position suits experienced architects comfortable mentoring teams while shaping product strategy and integrating modern technologies like AI and containerization into legacy-dependent platforms.

_Our summary, not Rocket Software's wording._

## Skills named

API Design, Containerization, DevOps, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Python, z/OS

## Required

- 10+ years of professional software engineering or technical product experience
- At least 5 years in a principal or senior technical leadership role
- Deep knowledge of automation technologies, workload orchestration, and DevOps practices
- Experience architecting scalable platforms for hybrid cloud and mainframe environments
- Proficiency in z Assembler (HLASM), z/OS architecture, and modern programming languages
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines for mainframe software development
- Experience as a player-coach mentoring global engineering teams
- Collaboration skills across product, sales, and customer engineering
- Expertise in enterprise workload automation and batch processing
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

## Nice to have

- Familiarity with observability platforms and security best practices
- Understanding of AI/ML integration for predictive and generative automation
- Experience with modern deployment containerization and provisioning technologies

Apply on Rocket Software's site: https://rocket.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/rocket_careers/job/United-States/Senior-Principal-Product-Architect_R2025-6186