Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lumen is a trusted network provider connecting people, data, and applications through an expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. The Principal Software Development Engineer will lead Salesforce and MuleSoft-powered enterprise integrations, defining scalable API-first architectures, engineering standards, and cross-system automation strategies. The role partners with business, platform, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across Lumen and demonstrate leadership with a high level of engagement and ensuring customer focus with user communities, both internal and external
- Communication through Interaction with leadership to ensure open communication and handle situations involving conflict while promoting a positive company image
- Strongly drive an intentional automation first approach and leverage AI daily to improve efficiency to deliver
- Incorporate AI to deliver solutions and deliver AI enabled solutions
- Lead the design and implementation of MuleSoft-based integrations using API-led connectivity principles and define and govern enterprise API standards, including RAML/OpenAPI specifications, versioning, and lifecycle management
- DesigAct as a bridge between engineering teams, ensuring that system interactions are clearly defined and consistently implemented
- And optimize system-to-system integrations across Salesforce, cloud platforms, and on‑prem systems using MuleSoft
- Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and security of integrations, including error handling, retries, and monitoring
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, and security teams to align MuleSoft integrations with enterprise architecture standards and design, development of interactions between distributed systems, and services
- Define and document using engineering-level design patterns, including data exchange formats, API contracts, and automation triggers and collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and broader software teams to ensure alignment and clarity in system integration
- Establish and enforce engineering standards for development, design, documentation, and validation
- Serve as the engineering authority for cross-system automation and integration patterns involving SalesForce
Skills
- * BS/BA or equivalent education and experience
- * Strong software development skills surrounding SalesForce
- * Strong hands-on experience designing and delivering integrations using MuleSoft
- * Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams in a complex environment
- * Excellent communication skills to include: verbal, written, and presentation
- * US Citizen or GC holder
- * 10+ years of experience engineering SaaS / cloud-native / cloud-ready concepts, systems integration, APIs, network technology and operations, or automation architecture
- * Experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, including API Manager, Runtime Manager, and CloudHub
- * Experience designing API-led connectivity (System, Process, and Experience APIs)
- * Familiarity with tools like common IDEs, automated test suites, CI/CD Pipelines, IaC, Swagger/OpenAPI, BPMN, or UML for documenting system interactions
- * Experience with service orchestration platforms or workflow engines (e.g., Temporal, Camunda, Step Functions)
- * Background in software development, systems engineering, technical architecture, or platform engineering
Benefits
- This is a work from home position within the US.
- Health benefits
- Life benefits
- Voluntary Lifestyle benefits
- Other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing
- Bonus structure, including short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation
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