# Senior Principal Full Stack Engineer at Digicert

- Company: Digicert
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Sterling, Virginia
- Level: Principal
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $179K–215K
- Posted: 2026-11-04
- Skills: Engineering
- Apply: https://www.digicert.com/careers/?gh_jid=8930020002

## Description

Who we are 
 DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com 
 Job Duties: 
• Design, develop, and maintain backend services supporting large-scale distributed systems (20%). 
• Participate in system architecture, service design, and data modeling to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance (15%). 
• Provide guidance on system design and implementation across multiple services (10%). 
• Design and implement APIs (RESTful or gRPC) for internal and external platform services (15%). 
• Develop and optimize systems to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads (10%). Work with cloud-based infrastructure to deploy, monitor, and operate services in production environments (5%). 
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes (5%). 
• Analyze and improve system performance, reliability, and fault tolerance in distributed environments (5%). 
• Design, implement, and operate DNS-based services, including DNS record lifecycle management, caching strategies, and traffic routing policies to ensure reliable and performant name resolution at scale (10%). 
• Collaborate with cross-function

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