Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and define architecture patterns across multiple systems and domains.
• Make high-stakes technical trade-offs and communicate decisions to engineers, product teams, and executives.
• Lead complex, multi-team initiatives from architecture through delivery and operational excellence.
• Own reliability, scalability, and security for mission-critical systems.
• Design, prototype, and ship production systems using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
• Establish practices, guardrails, and review discipline for safe, high-quality AI-enabled development in a regulated environment.
• Mentor and coach engineers, raise engineering quality standards, and influence without authority.
• Build consensus and serve as a trusted technical advisor across engineering.

Requirements

• Typically 10+ years of software development experience.
• Track record delivering large, complex systems to production at scale and influencing technical direction across teams.
• Experience designing distributed architectures, ideally in AWS.
• Strong understanding of separation of concerns, scalability, loose coupling, and designing for failure.
• Experience designing systems where AI and agents are first-class architectural components, including agent design, orchestration, configurability, and guardrails.
• Sound judgment for building AI products responsibly in regulated environments.
• Experience with relational and document-oriented databases, including performance tuning and scaling.
• Proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript, and frontend frameworks such as React.
• Fluency with automated testing, CI/CD, and modern code-management practices.
• Ability to communicate complex issues clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual base salary: $114,200–$267,800, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
• Equity grants for all employees.
• 4% matching 401(k) program.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage for employees working 30+ hours per week.
• Monthly wellness stipend.
• Paid parental leave.
• Flexible vacation policy.