Principal Software Engineer

Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us.

Are you a passionate .NET expert with a knack for solving complex problems and building high-performance applications? Itron is looking for a seasoned software engineer ready to make an impact on real-world energy and water solutions. This is your chance to work at the cutting edge of smart infrastructure, where your experience and ideas will help power innovation around the globe.

In this role, you'll bring deep expertise in designing and developing scalable, high-volume .NET applications. You're someone who can break down complex challenges into actionable solutions, translating business requirements into solid, technical designs. Your problem-solving mindset and test-driven development experience will be key to delivering reliable, efficient software in a fast-paced Agile environment.

• Ability to quickly absorb and understand new technologies

• Adapts to change quickly, is open to new ideas, takes on new responsibilities, handles pressure, and adjusts plans to meet changing needs, direction and new challenges.

• Generates new ideas, takes smart business risks, supports change, encourages innovation, solves problems creatively

• Understands team objectives and goals, keeps job knowledge current, is in command of critical issues

• Goes above and beyond -- Takes action that goes beyond job requirements in order to achieve objectives

• Manages a fair workload, volunteers for additional work, prioritizes tasks, develops good work procedures, manages time well, handles information flow

• Meets all team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, shares knowledge, helps co-workers to meet goals, makes the most of individual strength.

• Responds quickly. Takes immediate action when confronted with a problem or when made aware of a situation.

• Takes independent action. Implements new ideas or potential solutions without prompting; does not wait for others to take action or to request action.

• Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of problems.

• Demonstrates quality. Personally seeks to add value in every work assignment. Takes ownership in the overall quality of the product/solution.

• Takes action - Finds opportunities to improve quality, shows concern for accuracy and completeness of work and takes action to prevent or correct quality problems.

• Experience with the creation/maintenance of high volume asynchronous multi-threaded applications using:

• Visual Studio 2022/2019

• C#

• Experience with ADS / GIT

• Azure experience (Pipelines)

• Docker or containerized programming

• Experience with RESTful web service

• GRPC

• .Net 8.0

• Experience with relational databases (Oracle, PostGreSQL)

• Ability to write queries and analyze performance issues

• Message Queuing systems (RabbitMQ, TIBCO)

• Powershell

• Ability to understand asynchronous multi-threaded applications

• Experience with DLMS / Metering protocols a plus

• 6 years of applicable experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science related field or equivalent experience.

Itron is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and providing an authentic workplace experience for all employees. If you are excited about this role but your past experiences don't perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. In the end, you may be just who we are looking for!

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.

Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. If you require an accommodation to apply, please contact a recruiting representative at 1-800-635-5461 or email Accessibility@itron.com.

Itron enables utilities and cities to safely, securely and reliably deliver critical infrastructure solutions. We provide smart networks, software, services, meters, and sensors to better manage electricity, gas, water and city services. We are dedicated to creating a more resourceful world.