# Principal Software Engineer, Workload Orchestration (Distributed Compute)) at nTop

- Company: nTop
- What the company does: nTop generates and validates mission-ready geometry automatically, freeing engineers for the decisions that matter. Backed by Insight.
- Company website: https://www.ntop.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $165K to $215K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Apply by: 2026-12-04
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/ntop/am9icG9zdDrTV7IQYr1Wlb71B10Dw8hS?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ntop-principal-software-engineer-workload-orchestration-distributed-compute/

## About the role

You'll join our Orchestrate team as a senior engineer working on one of our biggest shifts: turning an installed desktop application into a platform that can run computation in parallel across on-prem and cloud clusters, and opening up how designs are stored. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years of professional software engineering, with a record of owning projects end to end and delivering across team boundaries
- Strong C++ experience building production systems, comfortable working in Python as well
- Hands-on experience with distributed or parallel systems, such as job scheduling, workload orchestration, cluster or cloud compute, or fault-tolerant services
- Experience improving a large, long-lived codebase step by step: refactoring, API design, or extracting modules without breaking existing users
- Comfort with ambiguity. You can take a fuzzy problem, research it, weigh options, and make a clear recommendation, including "not yet."
- Clear written and spoken communication. You earn trust across teams by explaining your reasoning and following through


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ntop-principal-software-engineer-workload-orchestration-distributed-compute/