Principle Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to serve as the senior-most individual contributor within a product stream composed of multiple pods. This is a generalist, high-impact role for someone who is equally energized by elevating the technical bar for others and solving challenging problems themselves.

You will drive the most difficult technical challenges across the entire delivery lifecycle, including: requirements analysis, high-level design, architecture, infrastructure, CI/CD, debugging, triage, production support, and monitoring.

Comfort with ambiguity is essential. You will be a key contributor to shaping early product requirements and defining high-level technical direction as those priorities evolve quickly.

You will have significant autonomy in how you approach problems, while ensuring all designs align with enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, and security guidelines.

This role reports to the Engineering Manager for your product stream.

Responsibilities

• Build engineering excellence in the teams you support through technical design, review, and coaching

• Provide technical leadership from early requirements through to production across the full delivery lifecycle

• Lead complex initiatives spanning multiple pods while requirements and technical direction are still forming

• Establish engineering standards and best practices for the product stream

• Lead architecture and design reviews across the product stream in alignment with enterprise, cloud, and security architecture guidelines

• Identify systemic risks in distributed, near-real-time systems and drive them to resolution

• Mentor and develop Tech Leads and Staff Engineers

• Partner with the Engineering Manager on day-to-day technical issues that arise within the team

• Represent the product stream in cross-functional technical discussions

Requirements

Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including TypeScript or a similar web stack language

• Experience providing technical direction for critical, business-facing systems across multiple teams

• Microservices and event-driven architecture: service boundaries, async messaging, idempotency, ordering, and dead-letter handling

• RDBMS and NoSQL data modelling, including schema design and query performance

• API design and management, including REST and API gateway patterns

• Observability grounded in OpenTelemetry, plus familiarity with APM/dashboard tooling (Dynatrace, Grafana, or similar)

• AuthN/AuthZ, least-privilege IAM, and secrets management fundamentals

• Bonus: experience with Azure

Leadership

• Works effectively across engineering, product, and architecture/security boundaries

• Demonstrates good judgement on when to own a problem and when to involve others to collaborate on it

• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical audiences alike

• Builds trust through technical credibility, not authority