Principal Software Engineer - PA 105

Responsibilities

• Embed with Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management teams on a rotating basis, writing production-quality code and unblocking the hardest technical problems
• Define and evolve scalable, fault-tolerant, event-driven architecture on Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/NestJS, Kafka, and workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal or Google Cloud Workflows
• Lead response and root-cause analysis for high-severity incidents and systemic reliability issues
• Drive platform modernization by consolidating integration patterns, re-architecting legacy systems, and improving observability
• Establish best practices for idempotency, retries, error handling, state management, API and webhook versioning, and workflow design
• Shape multi-quarter roadmaps with the Senior Director, Engineering Managers, and Product, bringing technical feasibility, sizing, and risk into prioritization
• Lead build-vs-buy evaluations and author architecture decision records and design docs that guide teams over multiple quarters
• Mentor engineers at all levels and serve as a senior interviewer to raise the hiring bar
• What you bring
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in senior or staff-level roles, with a track record of technical leadership across multiple teams

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