Principal Software Engineer
Position Summary
The Principal Software Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for setting the technical vision, standards, and strategy for an entire division or for providing deep expertise in a specialized discipline. This role operates above the scope of individual teams or business units, ensuring architectural alignment, advancing innovation, and addressing complex, cross-cutting technical challenges.
Key Responsibilities
Define and champion architectural standards, frameworks, and technical strategies for the division, ensuring coherence across multiple business units.
Provide thought leadership on complex, large-scale systems and solve problems that span multiple domains or disciplines.
Partner with Staff Engineers to guide business-unit initiatives and ensure alignment with division-wide goals.
Anticipate future challenges and guide the organization toward long-term, sustainable solutions.
Serve as a technical advisor to executive leadership, influencing business priorities and ensuring technical strategy aligns with organizational objectives.
Facilitate collaboration across business units to address shared challenges, promote innovation, and maximize reuse of patterns and solutions.
Drive technical consensus across diverse stakeholders, balancing trade-offs to deliver outcomes that benefit the division and the broader organization.
Mentor Staff Engineers, Lead Engineers, and other senior technical talent to grow organizational technical capability.
Set the tone for technical culture across the division, emphasizing excellence, innovation, and accountability.
Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement through knowledge sharing, modeling best practices, and elevating engineering standards.
Lead the technical design of transformative, division-wide initiatives that require integration across multiple systems, platforms, or business units.
Provide oversight for critical systems, ensuring they meet standards of reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
Guide root cause analysis of high-impact issues and ensure systemic improvements that prevent recurrence.
Measure success through long-term division-wide impact, including scalability, cost efficiency, and innovation.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a minimum of 6+ years in a technical leadership role.
- Extensive experience designing and scaling complex, mission-critical software systems across multiple domains.
- Prominent track record of influencing and setting technical direction at the organizational or divisional level.
- Strong ability to balance short-term delivery needs with long-term strategic goals.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and align diverse stakeholders.
- Demonstrated expertise in mentoring senior engineers and shaping organizational technical culture.
- Deep knowledge of software engineering principles, system architecture, and operational excellence, independent of specific technologies.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the major job responsibilities (essential functions) of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major job responsibilities. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job.
Individual Competencies
Authenticity: Departmental oversight including goal setting, budget management, and results.
Innovative: Arrives at decision using analytical thought.
Urgency: Expertise in their discipline and understands these concepts in other disciplines.
Accountability: Entire organization.
Communication: Contributes to strategy for their team.
Problem Solving: Completes routine and repetitive tasks where tasks are straightforward.
Collaboration: Creates internal alliances outside the immediate team or department.
Teamwork: Advanced communication skills used to lead a team.
Benefits
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance options
401(k) retirement plans with company match
Health Spending Accounts (HSA/FSA)
Tuition Reimbursement and certification support
Concierge and work/life support resources
Wellness and Mental Health counseling services
Flexible time off and 11 paid holidays
Maternity, Adoption, and Parental Leave
Parental Leave
Adoption Assistance Reimbursement
Perks and discount programs
Compensation
The Hiring Range For This Position Is 164,254.50 - 273,757.50 USD Annual. The final offer may vary based on factors such as geographic location, job-related skills, education, certifications, work experience, and other relevant considerations. Depending on the job level and role, it may include: Annual discretionary bonuses through our Core Company Performance Bonus Plan, Equity grants, sign-on bonuses, and other tailored incentive opportunities, Growing Revenue Incentives, Corporate or VIP Bonuses, Deferred compensation opportunities. The actual annualized salary offered at the time of hire will be communicated in the candidate’s offer letter.