Senior Principal Software Engineer

We are Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) - the trusted provider of software that enables our customers to develop, deploy and manage responsible, AI-powered applications and experience with agility and ease.

We’re proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress. Join us as a Software Engineer, Senior Principal in our LoadMaster engineering team and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward. Know more about us .

Overview: This senior individual contributor role blends deep, hands-on software development with sustained technical leadership and ownership of critical LoadMaster areas. You will act as a technical authority across complex subsystems and architectural domains while staying actively involved in design, implementation, and complex problem solving. Your focus is the ongoing evolution, performance, security, and long-term maintainability of the LoadMaster platform.

In this role you will:

Own engineering for critical functional and architectural areas of LoadMaster

Design, implement, and deliver core features and platform components

Serve as the technical authority for complex subsystems and problem areas

Drive performance, scalability, security, and maintainability improvements

Lead deep problem analysis and resolution across the stack

Guide engineering requirements and architectural impact assessments

Lead proofs of concept and prototypes to validate designs and de-risk approaches

Provide ongoing technical guidance to globally distributed teams

Mentor senior engineers and elevate engineering practices

Collaborate with product, engineering leadership, and peers on roadmap and trade-offs

Champion high-quality code, reviews, and continuous improvement

Contribute to cross-team standards, tooling, and automation

Your background:

Extensive experience delivering complex, high-performance Linux systems

Expert C systems programming with a focus on low-latency TCP/IP networking

Deep knowledge of Linux internals: networking stack, memory, kernel–userspace

Proven performance engineering: profiling, bottleneck analysis, optimization

Strong security background: threat modeling, cryptography, secure design

Advanced Bash and Linux tooling for automation and diagnostics

Solid understanding of CPU, memory, NUMA, and I/O for optimization

Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading cross-team impact

It will be beneficial if you have:

Expertise in authentication, WAF, load balancing, proxy architectures, and TLS

Experience with embedded Linux and hardware acceleration

Background in distributed systems across cloud or virtualized environments

Observability practices across complex systems

If this sounds like you and fits your experience and career goals, we’d be happy to chat. What we offer in return is the opportunity to experience a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with, and also to enjoy:

Competitive remuneration package

Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrolment

Vacation, Family, and Health

30 days of earned leave

An extra day off for your birthday

Various other leaves like marriage leave, casual leave, maternity leave, and paternity leave

Premium Group Medical Insurance for employees and five dependents, personal accident insurance coverage, and life insurance coverage

Professional development reimbursement

Interest subsidy on loans - either vehicle or personal loans.

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