Principal Software Engineer

About the Role

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader across Engineering. This is a hands-on role focused on improving architecture, scalability, reliability, and engineering quality across our systems.

We have a strong team of Senior and Staff engineers, and we’re looking for someone who can make that team even more effective. This role is about creating leverage across Engineering: improving the quality of technical decisions, mentoring experienced engineers, establishing durable architecture and engineering practices, and helping teams move faster without sacrificing reliability or maintainability.

We’re also changing how we build software. Our engineering team is putting more emphasis on using agentic development tools effectively. The goal is not to replace engineering judgment, but to improve planning, implementation, testing, review, and overall leverage. This role will help shape practical workflows for using these tools well while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and maintainability.

You’ll work closely with engineering leadership, product, infrastructure, and security teams to shape long-term technical direction while helping teams move quickly and responsibly.

What you'll be working on

• Improving architecture across backend services and platform infrastructure, and defining long-term architectural strategy and technical standards across teams
• Establish engineering standards that improve consistency, maintainability, reliability, and operational readiness
• Scale distributed systems and improve performance across core services
• Improve production engineering practices, including observability, testing, incident response, and post-incident review
• Identify and reduce high-impact technical debt
• Improve developer tooling, workflows, and engineering productivity
• Help teams use agentic development tools effectively across planning, implementation, testing, review, and validation
• Partnering with product and other teams to drive technical direction