Principal Engineer Manager

The Senior Principal Engineer is a senior individual contributor role responsible for owning and evolving end-to-end technical architecture for one or more business domains. The role writes production code, raises engineering standards, and drives measurable improvements in how software is designed, built, tested, and operated. This position works closely with product, engineering, QA, platform, and business stakeholders to deliver robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Job Description

- Own and evolve the system and solution architecture for assigned domain(s) or platform(s).
- Ensure technical designs are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise or global reference architectures.
- Make decisions on software architecture and implementation strategy.
- Drive adoption of test-driven development, common APIs/interfaces, and shared engineering patterns.
- Write high-quality application code in critical or complex areas and set a strong example for engineering standards.
- Lead system and solution design discussions with multiple stakeholders to support feature development and delivery planning.
- Identify technical risks and challenges early and resolve them with timely, innovative, and pragmatic solutions.
- Build tooling and improve developer productivity, software delivery agility, and development environments.
- Champion automated testing, quality engineering, and appropriate unit, functional, and integration test coverage.
- Promote Agile delivery, version control best practices, and effective branch/release strategies.
- Collaborate with Platform Engineering, QA, and other teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and cloud-ready development practices.
- Mentor and coach engineers, including senior engineers, and conduct thoughtful code reviews.
- Investigate and resolve complex production and performance issues across the stack.
- Build observable, fault-tolerant systems with monitoring, logging, and alerting.

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering roles.
- At least 2 years of experience in a senior technical leadership capacity, such as Senior Engineer or Technical Lead.
- Experience shipping production code across multiple parts of the technical stack.
- Experience developing web applications in a public cloud environment.
- Experience investigating and solving production issues in both on-premise and cloud environments.
- Experience using workflow management tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, or BMC.