Principal Software Engineer

Own architecture across product and platform:

• Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards.
• Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance.
• Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution.

Introduce new technologies and best practices:

• Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable.
• Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates.
• Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs.

Solve the hardest cross-team problems:

• Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable.
• Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails.

Global cloud and regulated environment leadership

• Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability).
• Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance.

Mentor and coach across the organization:

• Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment.
• Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops.

About You:

Technical breadth (multi-stack);

• Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups
• Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js).
• Ability to move between systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default.
• Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals.
• Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions.
• Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity.
• Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi-region deployments, DR/BCP, observability).
• Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments.

Mentorship and communication:

• Strong written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership.
• Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising the technic al bar.

Education:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field