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Principal Software Engineer - U.S.

DISCO Headquarters - Austin💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Shapes and evolves distributed system architecture using Domain Driven Design to ensure robustness, scalability, and security for a cloud-native legal AI platform.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Architecture & Platform Strategy)

Builds

Scalable, distributed data-intensive systems and platform capabilities for legal document review and case management.

Domain

Legal Technology / Cloud Infrastructure / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed Domain Driven Design, High-volume distributed architecture, Big Data technologies (ElasticSearch, NoSQL, Kafka, Columnar DBs), Infrastructure services (Message Bus, Observability), Service Oriented Architecture, CI/CD automation (Terraform, Jenkins), Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), API/Data Model Design, Algorithm development for pipeline processing, Security design, 3rd party component selection.

Preferred skills

Multi-tenant system design, Feature toggle strategies.

Responsibilities

Drive definition and evolution of architecture using Distributed Domain Driven Design; Act as strategy leader for Architecture Quality Attributes (Availability, Performance, Scalability, Security); Provide project-embedded architecture consultation; Contribute to prioritization of platform capability improvements; Enhance capture and communication of architecture descriptions through automation; Shepherd platform-wide strategies including naming, protocol standards, and design patterns.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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