Principal Software Engineer - PMTS

• review major cross-cutting initiatives at design-review gates with the authority to approve or reject final designs, and establish, refine, and enforce the review processes, cross-cutting standards, and engineering practices behind them, balancing rigor with high velocity.

• define architectural principles, frameworks, and multi-year roadmaps, shepherd major initiatives to completion, and ensure alignment with company standards, security mandates, cloud-infrastructure needs, cost (COGS) optimization, and "Build vs. Buy" and M&A-diligence decisions.

• scalability, fault tolerance, extensibility, maintainability, security, and observability.

• lead competitive research and industry-trend analysis, and author and deliver blogs, whitepapers, patents, technical reports, and presentations to customers and at industry events.

• provide technical mentorship to fellow architects and senior and staff-level engineers, systematically passing down architectural knowledge.

• communicate decisions and the recommended standards and best practices (the "golden path") through newsletters, ask-me-anything (AMA) sessions, and all-hands so every engineer stays aligned.

• analyze product strategy and technical feasibility, and partner closely with Dev, QA, PM, and UX to ensure features meet business and quality requirements.

and interface with support and customers as needed. • Required skills

• 12+ years

building highly scalable Software-as-a-Service applications and platforms.

• Proven ability to

, and a demonstrated track record of driving long-term design strategies that span multiple complex projects.

• Track record as an

• owning design-review gates, setting standards, and driving cross-team architectural alignment to conclusion.

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• data modeling, database technologies (RDBMS & NoSQL), SQL/PL-SQL, and hands-on experience with data pipelines, distributed data processing, and large-scale data lake/warehouse/lakehouse systems.

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at scale, including agentic workflows, RAG, vector search, and LLM workflow orchestration, plus the model-consumable data foundations underneath them.

• Experience building technical architectures that address complex performance, scalability, and fault-tolerance challenges.
• Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming with at least one OO language,

• delivering technical reports and presentations to customers and at industry events; authoring blogs, papers, or patents.
• Demonstrated track record of

across multiple technical and business teams to resolve critical issues.

• Experience with the full software lifecycle in highly agile and ambiguous environments.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to communicate with, encourage, and motivate all levels of staff.

• Experience with data integration

,

at scale.

• Solid experience in API development, API lifecycle management, and/or client SDK development.
• Experience with Predictive and Generative AI, and with AI/ML observability, evaluation, and guardrails.
• Experience with streaming/event-driven architectures and real-time + batch pipelines.
• Familiarity with consumption/COGS optimization models and "Build vs. Buy" / M&A technical diligence.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, pair programming, and CI/CD.
• Ability to support and resolve production customer escalations with excellent debugging and problem-sol

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