The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Strategic Advantage Inc is hiring a Principal Software Engineer in Peoria, IL.

• Role description

  Our technology stack is growing faster than our team, so Strategic Advantage Inc is bringing on a Principal Software Engineer to keep the architecture honest. Bring GitHub Actions and RabbitMQ sharpened over 9 years, and Strategic Advantage Inc answers with $126,000 - $181,000 plus a clear path up.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Strategic Advantage Inc can explain
  • Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging GitLab CI and Written Communication
  • Untangle the RabbitMQ dependency knots that have slowed Peoria releases for months
  • Tune GitLab CI queries until the IL database stops timing out under load
  • Keep GitLab CI schemas backward-compatible so Strategic Advantage Inc never forces a breaking upgrade
  • Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time

  What You'll Bring

  • Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
  • The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses
  • A portfolio that speaks louder than any line on your resume
  • 9 or more years steering technology projects end to end
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
  • At least 10 years of standing behind your own estimates

  Strategic Advantage Inc exists for one stubborn reason: the technology tools everyone settled for were never good enough, so we rebuilt them from Peoria, IL. The Strategic Advantage Inc promise is plain: clear expectations, real autonomy, and zero surprise reviews.

  We reward quietly-excellent contributors with $126,000 - $181,000, flexible hours, wellness perks, and meaningful career development support.

  Just updated, just confirmed, just waiting on the right applicant.

  If steady temporary work with real stakes appeals to you, the Principal Software Engineer chair is waiting.

• Required skills

  • RabbitMQ
  • GitHub Actions
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Go
  • GitLab CI
  • Stress Management
  • Written Communication

• Benefits & perks

  • Maternity Leave
  • Retiree medical benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Family planning support
  • Supplemental life insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Childcare subsidies
  • Charitable donation matching
  • Board Games
  • Gym membership reimbursement
  • Corporate Rates

• Apply before 2026-08-24

  Submit your application for this Temporary technology position.