Principal Software Engineer

Job highlights

• Bonus: experience with data streaming (Kafka / Pub/Sub),API gateways,federated GraphQL,and visual regression / e2e testing at scale

• Define multi-quarter technical strategy and target architecture across multiple squads; lead design councils and author ADRs for cross-cutting decisions

• Establish and enforce org-wide engineering standards and API governance (versioning, deprecation, pagination, caching, security)

• Set performance budgets and Core Web Vitals targets; drive systemic improvements via SSR/SSG, code-splitting, edge/CDN caching, and RUM dashboards

• Own reliability for critical user journeys; define SLOs/SLIs/error budgets, implement canary/blue-green rollouts, circuit breakers, autoscaling, and lead blameless postmortems

• Build and govern a reusable design system and frontend platform (monorepo strategy, component libraries, Storybook) to accelerate delivery across teams

• Elevate developer experience: standardized CI/CD pipelines with quality gates (lint / typecheck / tests / coverage) , artifact provenance/SBOM, SAST/DAST, and secure supply chain practices

• Drive observability standards using OpenTelemetry; publish golden-signal dashboards and alerts aligned to business SLOs

• Architect resilient, cost-aware cloud topologies in AWS/GCP (multi-region/zone, least-privilege IAM); guide IaC with Terraform/CDK and Kubernetes best practices

• Optimize data access patterns across MongoDB/Redis (sharding, indexing strategies, TTL/eviction, caching layers); ensure data consistency and idempotency in distributed flows

• Make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions; evaluate and introduce technologies with a clear ROI and deprecation plan for legacy systems

• Partner with Product, Security, SRE, and Data teams to craft roadmaps, sequence risks, and land multi-team initiatives on schedule

• Mentor and multiply senior/staff engineers; lead design reviews, create growth plans, calibrate hiring loops, and raise the engineering bar

What you bring:

• Deep expertise in frontend performance (Core Web Vitals, SSR/SSG), accessibility (WCAG), advanced Sass/CSS, and enterprise-grade design systems
• Strong API design and governance for REST/GraphQL: schema evolution, versioning strategy, caching, pagination, and contract testing
• Cloud-native at scale on AWS/GCP: Kubernetes, Docker, service mesh patterns, edge/CDN performance and security; IaC with Terraform/CDK
• Production reliability leadership: SLO/SLI/error budgets, incident response coordination, chaos testing, capacity planning
• Observability: metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) with the ability to derive action from telemetry
• Security-first mindset: OWASP, OAuth/OIDC, secret management, dependency hygiene/supply-chain security; familiarity with SOC2/ISO/GDPR/CCPA practices
• Developer productivity at scale: monorepo tooling (Nx/Turborepo), code ownership models, module federation; standardized CI/CD with quality gates
• Cost stewardship: demonstrated ability to model and optimize cloud spend with clear guardrails and dashboards
• Influence without authority; excellent written and verbal communication; proven mentorship of senior/staff engineers and participation in hiring rubric design
• Bonus: experience with data streaming (Kafka/Pub/Sub), API gateways, federated GraphQL, and visual regression/e2e testing at scale