Principal Software Engineer

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

Qualifications

· 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 stakeholders

· Experience working closely with product and business teams to deliver customer-facing solutions

· Demonstrated ability to simplify complex systems and optimize cost, performance, and maintainability

· Experience working with and managing third-party technologies and vendors (e.g., Redis or similar infrastructure components)

· Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences