Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver highly scalable, resilient distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise-level architectural standards, system design principles, and engineering guardrails that shape engineering work across multiple business units
• Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that operate at global scale
• Architect multi-region, fault-tolerant, and globally distributed platforms with rigorous attention to availability, durability, and disaster recovery
• Drive enterprise modernization initiatives, including microservices transformation, platform consolidation, and legacy decommissioning
• Define API governance, data architecture, and service communication patterns adopted across the engineering organization
• Lead reliability engineering and incident response improvements, raising the bar on operational excellence enterprise-wide
• Conduct deep architectural reviews and performance audits across multiple platforms
• Guide engineering teams on concurrency, scalability, observability, and optimization strategies
• Design observability and monitoring frameworks at enterprise scale, defining standards for metrics, logs, and traces that work consistently across many teams and many production environments
• Develop DevOps, CI/CD, and automation strategy across engineering teams and platforms
• Partner with executive leadership and product management on technology roadmap decisions
• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and contribute substantively to talent growth across the organization
• Drive innovation and continuously evaluate emerging technologies for strategic adoption
• Lead the resolution of critical system-level production issues that require deep architectural insight

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Ten or more years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven expertise designing distributed, high-scale systems in production
• Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages
• Deep understanding of data modeling, system optimization, and performance tuning
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives across multiple business units
• Strong expertise in reliability engineering and distributed architectures
• Demonstrated leadership in architectural decision-making at enterprise scale
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Public technical contributions (papers, talks, OSS leadership)
• Experience driving multi-year transformation programs
• Familiarity with FinOps and large-scale cost optimization
• Exposure to regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government)
• Advanced degree or equivalent industry recognition