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Principal Software Engineer

What you’ll doAct as the technical lead for large parts of the scanner platform: system architecture, codebase structure, and long-term maintainability.Own core runtime foundations: distributed control, state management, fault handling, and

Company

Midjourney

Location

San Francisco; San Francisco Bay Area Hybrid

Status

Open

Posted

2026-06-30T18:58:35.743+00:00

Midjourney is hiring a principal software engineer to lead the architecture of its scanner platform. The work covers system design, codebase structure and long-term maintainability, runtime foundations such as distributed control, state management and fault handling, observability through logs, metrics and traces, and large refactors of messaging and concurrency. The posting asks for deep architecture experience on robotics, instrumentation, medical or complex distributed products, strong Python and concurrency skills, and technical leadership. The engineer works with hardware and recon/ML teams on interfaces, data contracts and failure modes.