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Principal Engineer - Software

Dish Network

Dish Network

Plano, TX, USA · United States
USD 164,439.5-164,439.5 / year
Posted on Jun 18, 2025
Company Summary

DISH, an EchoStar Company, has been reimagining the future of connectivity for more than 40 years. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products, and now we are building America’s First Smart Network™.

Today, our brands include EchoStar, Hughes, DISH TV, Sling TV, Boost Infinite, Boost Mobile, DISH Wireless, OnTech and GenMobile.


Department Summary

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Job Duties and Responsibilities

Principal Engineer - Software by DISH Wireless L.L.C. in Plano, Texas.

  • Design and develop API specifications using OpenAPI Specifications/YAML that is scalable and provide greater security on data.
  • Create build and deployment pipelines for APIs using appropriate tools to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment.
  • Support end-end management of the APIs over its entire lifecycle
  • Work with various application teams to understand their business needs and requirements for the API implementation.
  • Ensure API documentation is created and remains up to date.
  • Lead the development review and ensure code and design quality with appropriate logging, monitoring, tracing, and security standards in place.
  • Help troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the API platform, API accessibility and API deployments.
  • Perform root cause analysis for Production issues and come up with solutions that will prevent them from happening in the future.
  • Participate and contribute in grooming technical user stories impacting integration.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Requires Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, or a closely related field plus 6 years of experience in the job offered or as Software Developer. Also requires 6 years of work experience with/using the following (which may have been gained concurrently):

  • Spring Boot, MySQL, Selenium, and Jenkins
  • Lambda and AWS Step Functions
  • Core Java technologies (Generics, Strings, Exception handling, Collections, and Annotations
  • REST API and APIGEE,
  • AWS, EC2, EKS, Lambdas, and S3.
  • Dynamo DB

Salary Ranges

Compensation: $164,439.50/Year
Benefits

Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.


Rate of Pay: $164,439.50


Benefits information available at careers.dish.com.


Apply at careers.dish.com. Ref: 2025-93307 if applying externally through careers.dish.com; Ref: 2025-93308 if applying internally. May also apply by emailing resume with (Ref: 2025-93307) to tasharedservices@dish.com. The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.