Principal Software Engineer

About this role

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver complex, cross-cutting initiatives spanning multiple services and programs, driving alignment and resolution across teams
• Partner with business and product stakeholders to architect and deliver new services, products, and bundled offerings
• Own and drive end-to-end architectural design, including service boundaries, interactions, dependencies, and policies
• Take ownership of customer experience across a group of services or productized applications, ensuring reliability, scalability, and usability
• Simplify systems and improve cost/benefit trade-offs of architectures and services; act as the technical owner of key vendors (e.g., Redis)
• Apply strong engineering judgment to balance trade-offs between performance, scalability, speed, and business impact
• Operate beyond defined domains, taking on challenges across multiple areas of software engineering|
• Act as a consultative leader across teams and organizational boundaries to identify synergies, eliminate duplication, and drive reuse
• Participate in and influence Principal-level architecture reviews, driving solutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to organizational excellence by writing objective promotion recommendations based on measurable impact and achievements
• Lead technical interviews and hiring processes, helping raise the engineering bar across the organization
• Identify and challenge siloed behaviors, promoting collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant portion in large-scale, distributed systems
• Proven track record of leading enterprise-wide architecture and cross-team initiatives
• Deep expertise in system design, scalability, and service-oriented architectures
• Strong ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across multiple