Principal Software Engineer, DX

Position Overview

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As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building our Developer Experience team and owning complex infrastructure, applications, and services that power engineering across the organization. You’ll work across diverse codebases and tech stacks, contribute hands on to the codebase, and jump in where your impact is greatest. In addition to shaping internal guidelines and best practices, you’ll provide architectural direction, mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and drive improvements in developer workflows, system reliability, and overall productivity.

About the Team

Our team has a wealth of diverse life and career experiences that allow us to think outside of the box and ahead of the curve. You will get the opportunity to drive the future through new products that delight, while working with a mix of product, design, application engineers, data engineers, and AI experts to devise, nurture, and implement cutting-edge solutions to continuously evolving engineering obstacles.

About You

Versatile. Resourceful. Delivery-driven. You've navigated a wide range of codebases and applications throughout your career, working across a number of different tech stacks, from C# and SQL Server to modern MEAN stacks. While you have your preferred tools and technologies, you’re never hesitant to dive into unfamiliar territory when that’s where you can make the biggest difference. Comfortable across the full stack, from frontend interfaces to backend services to cloud infrastructure, you thrive on shipping early and often, taking pride in seeing work through to completion. You communicate clearly with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders alike, ensuring alignment and momentum no matter the challenge.

What To Expect In This Position

• Design, build, and take ownership of complex, high-impact applications and services that are critical to the organization’s success and scalability.
• Work across a variety of codebases and tech stacks, ranging from legacy systems to modern frameworks, bringing hands-on contributions wherever you can add the most value.
• Drive and advise the full lifecycle of application development, from frontend interfaces to backend services and cloud infrastructure.
• Define and promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines to raise the bar for quality and consistency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners, engineering, product, design, data, and AI, to deliver scalable, impactful solutions.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, test automation, observability, and deployment workflows to support faster, safer releases.
• Participate in the operational health of systems by ensuring stability, uptime, and observability of critical engineering services.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design sessions, pair programming, and ongoing knowledge-sharing.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to align priorities and expectations.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and engineering excellence across teams.

What Sets You Apart

• 8+ years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining production-grade software systems across varied tech stacks.
• Strong backend engineering skills, with experience designing APIs, building scalable services, and working in distributed environments.
• Proficiency working across the full application stack, including frontend frameworks, backend services, and cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency with AWS services and cloud infrastructure, with a working understanding of VPCs, IAM, EC2, ECS, and S3.
• Comfortable navigating a variety of technologies, with experience in stacks ranging from Python to JavaScript-based frameworks like MEAN.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD workflows and modern engineering automation practices; experienced with tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar.
• Practical knowledge of containerization.