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Principal Software Engineering Manager - CTJ - Poly

United States, Virginia, Reston💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-20 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers to deliver complex platform initiatives, establish engineering standards, and drive operational excellence in secure, government-sensitive environments.

Role type

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Builds

Complex platform initiatives, secure development standards, and resilient service infrastructure

Domain

Government cloud, sovereign cloud, security engineering, compliance-driven engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

People management, team coaching, architecture ownership, end-to-end delivery, incident response, risk reduction, stakeholder influence, technical mentoring, platform strategy, operational metrics analysis

Preferred skills

Experience with sovereign cloud, government cloud, regulated industry, security-sensitive cloud environments, leading managers and staff-level engineers in matrixed organizations

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python

Responsibilities

Lead and coach a team of engineers to create an inclusive culture of high performance; Own end-to-end delivery of complex platform initiatives including architecture and release readiness; Establish and improve engineering standards for secure development, code quality, and service resilience; Drive operational excellence through live-site accountability and incident reviews; Manage cross-team dependencies and influence senior stakeholders; Develop senior technical talent through mentoring and succession planning

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with people management

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