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Principal Software Engineer – 12?Month Contract | Perth CBD | Hybrid | Oil & Gas
Location: Perth CBD (Hybrid)
Contract: 12?month casual contract
Industry: Oil & Gas
Role Level: Principal / Senior Technical Leader
About the Opportunity
We’re seeking an exceptional Principal Software Engineer to provide organisation?wide technical leadership within a major Oil & Gas business. This role is ideal for a high?impact engineer who thrives on solving complex problems, shaping engineering strategy, and uplifting capability across multiple teams.
As a senior technical leader, you will influence outcomes far beyond your immediate team setting vision, driving engineering excellence, and ensuring long?term platform health. You’ll mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and help shape the future of software engineering across the organisation.
This is a rare opportunity to work at scale, tackle deeply complex technical challenges, and play a pivotal role in strengthening engineering culture and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction across teams, setting clear vision, standards, and engineering strategy
- Mentor and uplift engineers across multiple teams, supporting growth and capability development
- Drive knowledge sharing through coaching, workshops, and community learning
- Align technology decisions with business objectives and long?term platform health
- Own critical platforms, ensuring reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence
- Solve high?complexity, ambiguous technical problems with strong systems thinking
- Develop scalable, repeatable engineering patterns and promote adoption across teams
- Influence architecture, engineering practices, and cross?team decision?making
- Participate in hiring, helping build a diverse and high?performing engineering community
- Remove blockers, foster collaboration, and anticipate the needs of teams and stakeholders
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients.
With over 1000 employees and 9,000+ contractors operating in over 130 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.
Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered. (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA)
If you would like to be considered for the position, please apply directly to this advertisement or send your application via email to caryl.isuan@airswift.com with your updated CV/ resume & contact details. Alternatively, you may contact Caryl at +61 8 6318 1100 for more information.
Skills & Experience
Experience as a senior or principal?level engineer delivering impact across multiple teams
Proven technical leadership without formal authority
Strong ownership of critical systems and platforms
Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud?native architectures, microservices, and event?driven design
Advanced cloud engineering skills (AWS preferred) including IaC, IAM, networking, observability, and resilience
Strong programming foundations across multiple languages
Expertise in secure coding, testing, performance optimisation, and production operations
Ability to design and deliver end?to?end solutions in complex environments
Strong communicator able to translate complex technical concepts for varied audiences
Recognised mentor and coach with a track record of uplifting engineering capability
- Communicate with clarity and professionalism across engineering, product, and leadership