Principal Software Engineer
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Location: Remote-US-CAFull-TimePrincipal
SalaryBelow is the US base salary for this position. Additional compensation such as Bonus, Commission, Equity and other benefits may also apply. $163,800 — $257,400 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in senior or staff-level roles
- Required Skills
- Node.jsJavaKafkaSpring BootNest.jsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Bring 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in senior or staff-level roles.
- Demonstrate technical leadership across multiple teams.
- Have deep experience designing and operating backend distributed systems at scale.
- Have strong proficiency in Java (Spring Boot) and/or Node.js (NestJS).
- Have experience building or owning integrations or connectors with CRM, marketing automation, sales engagement, or data warehouse platforms such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, or Snowflake.
- Demonstrate the ability to influence without authority, align teams, drive decisions, and earn trust across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Have a track record leading platform modernization, reliability, and observability initiatives.
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to executive leadership.
- Preferred: Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka, and workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, Google Cloud Workflows, or Airflow.
- Preferred: Working knowledge of data quality practices, including deduplication, standardization, enrichment, and GDPR/CCPA compliance.
- Preferred: Experience with API strategy, webhooks, partner/ISV integration programs, and no-code/low-code workflow builders.
- Preferred: Experience with AWS or GCP, build-vs-buy evaluations, vendor management, and SaaS cost optimization.
Responsibilities
- Embed with the Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management teams, writing production-quality code and unblocking difficult technical problems.
- Define and evolve scalable, fault-tolerant, event-driven architecture using Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/NestJS, Kafka, and workflow orchestration platforms.
- Lead response and root-cause analysis for high-severity incidents and systemic reliability issues.
- Modernize the platform 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 engineering and product leaders, contributing technical feasibility, sizing, and risk to prioritization.
- Lead build-vs-buy evaluations and write architecture decision records and design documents.
- Mentor engineers and serve as a senior interviewer.
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