Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities · Lead and deliver complex, cross-cutting initiatives spanning multiple services and programs, driving alignment and resolution across teams · Partner with business and product stakeholders to architect and deliver new services, products, and bundled offerings · Own and drive end-to-end architectural design, including service boundaries, interactions, dependencies, and policies · Take ownership of customer experience across a group of services or productized applications, ensuring reliability, scalability, and usability · Simplify systems and improve cost/benefit trade-offs of architectures and services; act as the technical owner of key vendors (e.g., Redis) · Apply strong engineering judgment to balance trade-offs between performance, scalability, speed, and business impact · Operate beyond defined domains, taking on challenges across multiple areas of software engineering| · Act as a consultative leader across teams and organizational boundaries to identify synergies, eliminate duplication, and drive reuse · Participate in and influence Principal-level architecture reviews, driving solutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory requirements · Contribute to organizational excellence by writing objective promotion recommendations based on measurable impact and achievements · Lead technical interviews and hiring processes, helping raise the engineering bar across the organization · Identify and challenge siloed behaviors, promoting collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership Qualifications · 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant portion in large-scale, distributed systems · Proven track record of leading enterprise-wide architecture and cross-team initiatives · Deep expertise in system design, scalability, and service-oriented architectures · Strong ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across multiple