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Principal Engineering Consultant

  • North Carolina, Cary

  • 07/16/2026

  • Contract

  • Active

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    JOB TITLE: Principal Engineering Consultant

    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
    - Contribute to and keep the industry-leading work of the Unified Agent Platform going
    - Work in with talents across the world in a globally leading firm.
    - State-of-the-art Agentic AI development in a leading professional legal AI firm
    - Implementing AI security, cryptography, and state-of-the-art homomorphic cryptography
    - Being able to understand from the big picture to detailed system implementation of big data and AI retrieval architecture, supporting and innovating as a global platform.
    - Be able to manoeuvre in a very dynamic environment, requires effective communication and social skills.
    - Being able to bridge and communicate across functional teams, locally and globally.
    - Documentation drafting, including architecture, solution comparisons, etc.
    - Have to be dynamically and highly skilled at conducting Proof of Concept systems design in a wide variety of functional domains.
    - To conduct various testing for selection of proper libraries, frameworks
    - To design and implement testing frameworks as guardrails for code delivery quality and behavioral tests.
    - Attending meetings with global teams to liaise and to provide support or systems diagnosis.
    - Rapid learner
    - Communication with key stakeholders and presenting industry-leading solutions in a professional manner

    REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
    - Hands on Linux/Unix skills
    - Hands on skills on cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)
    - Robust fundamentals in data architecture and infrastructures, particularly NoSQL (Not only RDBMS, but columnar databases, vector databases, K/V databases, search engines, Aerospike, Clickhouse, ElasticSearch, Solr, ELK, Cassandra, HBase, Cloud-based Spanner, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.)
    - Solid knowledge in message-driven/event-driven architectures, patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, SQS, EventBridge, etc.)
    - Solid knowledge in microservice architectures (CQRS, Saga, Composition, Replica, etc.)
    - DevSecOps skills (CI, CD, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Karpenter, CloudFormation, Terraform, IaC, EKS, GKE, SonarQube, etc.)
    - Cloud networking design (L4/L7 load balancers and limitations, DR methodology, rate limiting, performance sizing, binpacking, cloud Kubernetes ingress types, Istio, etc.)
    - Systems and code security (Hashing, deprecation and vulnerabilities, FIPS compliance, etc.)
    - Hands on coding skills with strong fundamentals of computer science, data structures, software and computer architecture (at least 3 languages in previous projects)
    - Knowledge in performance web frameworks for microservices architecture (e.g. Fiber, Gin, Spring Boot, FastAPI, Enterprise J2EE)
    - Knowledge in web serving technologies (e.g. Jetty, Tomcat, Uvicorn, Guvicorn, nginx, Apache HTTPD)
    - Knowledge and exposure in ETL architectures and implementations (Flink, Spark streaming)
    - Strong fundamentals in maintaining clean code, styling, best practices, algorithmic performance, performance and crash-free robust software architectures.
    - Knowledge in end-to-end observability solutions (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Splunk, Coralogix, structured metrics, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, DTrace)

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
    - Knowledge of Agentic AI and RAG architecture is high advantageous
    - Preferably: Go, Rust, Python, C, Java

    CERTIFICATIONS:
    - Cloud certifications

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