Principal Engineer, Backend

About the role

The Principal Engineer, Backend will architect, design, and build resilient, large-scale backend systems for Bluebeam’s Subscription Platform. This role sets technical standards, mentors staff, advises on complex technical challenges, and ensures robust, production-grade solutions that meet demanding scalability, reliability, and security expectations in a distributed cloud native environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and lead the implementation of cloud-native backend systems that are scalable, secure, and resilient, particularly with Identity, AWS and Go-based microservices.
• Proactively identify architectural risks, surface trade-offs, and implement solutions that account for security, compliance, and performance within the customer subscription space.
• Guide and mentor other engineers in backend systems to elevate design rigor, technical problem decomposition, and system reliability.
• Rapidly ramp up on unfamiliar problem spaces, codebases, and technologies to deliver timely value on complex projects.
• Is the go-to expert for complex areas of our systems.
• Advises Product and Engineering management on technology direction, trade-offs, and technical investments aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate with partner teams (Architecture, Client Applications, SRE, Security, Product, DevOps) for end-to-end solution delivery, platform consistency, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher - Computer Science or equivalent field.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• 15+ years building high performing/data intensive applications running in the Cloud.
• Evidence of progressive responsibility and significant architectural & business impact
• Advanced expertise in backend development, including designing, building, and operating production-grade REST and GraphQL APIs using Go (Golang) and/or .Net
• Extensive knowledge and practical experience with cloud infrastructure, architecting and supporting complex, large-scale distributed environments, preferably leveraging AWS
• Strong database fundamentals: SQL/NoSQL, schema design, query optimization, and cloud-native managed data stores.
• Experience designing, creating high-quality microservices
• Leading a team to deliver cloud native applications to market using Amazon AWS (like EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, ELB, Lambda).
• Comfortable with infrastructure-as-code, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and automated deployments (Terraform/CircleCI/GitHub Actions or similar).
• Solid knowledge of microservice architecture, containerization, and container orchestration.
• Profound contributions as technical mentor and leader for backend, SRE, and backend teams.
• Willingness to learn and expand skills and repertoire
• A positive mindset, team-oriented, results driven, and organized.
• Experience mentoring other team members
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience with identity federation and single sign-on (SSO) protocols (e.g., OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect)
• Contributions to Go/Golang or cloud-native open-source projects.

About You

The Principal Engineer, Backend will architect, design, and build resilient, large-scale backend systems for Bluebeam’s Subscription Platform. This role sets technical standards, mentors staff, advises on complex technical challenges, and ensures robust, production-grade solutions that meet demanding scalability, reliability, and security expectations in a distributed cloud native environment.