# Principal Consultant - Software Engineer

Are you a deeply technical leader who thrives on solving high-impact problems, scaling systems, and guiding engineering teams through hands-on leadership? At Torq, we work with forward-thinking organizations to design and deliver modern, scalable software solutions. We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help lead these efforts - someone who combines architectural depth, technical breadth, and the ability to mentor and influence other engineers. This is a role for engineers who’ve moved beyond being great individual contributors - and now amplify their impact through teams, design patterns, strategic guidance, and strong technical leadership. What You Could Be Doing In this role, you’ll work closely with engineering teams, technical leaders, and business stakeholders to: Define and lead technical direction across complex systems, projects, or client engagements Architect scalable, fault-tolerant solutions that solve real business problems Work hands-on with modern cloud-native technologies - AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and more Design and deliver APIs and service architectures that enable fast, stable delivery and long-term maintainability Set

- **Id**: 863842
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gotorq-principal-consultant-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Plano, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-09T16:09:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T10:10:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 123
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5394
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Parental leave, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Security Operations

## Company

- **Id**: 673827
- **Name**: gotorq
- **Domain**: gotorq.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gotorq>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 170000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 170000

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **Claude** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **Cursor** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Pulumi** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 123

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T11:56:37Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.347
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 123
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 170000
- **Is top pay**: no

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