Weave

Principal Engineer

Weave
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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Own the multi-year technical vision and architecture for messaging infrastructure at scale.
  • Drive architectural coherence across teams and resolve cross-system dependencies and platform-level technical debt.
  • Lead technical due diligence for build-versus-buy decisions, vendor evaluations, and platform migrations.
  • Identify and solve complex, ambiguous technical problems spanning organizational boundaries.
  • Develop comprehensive solutions with validation, rollback, and testing plans while forecasting time, financial, and opportunity costs.
  • Monitor industry developments and lead strategic initiatives for emerging messaging and data-infrastructure challenges.
  • Shape company-wide standards for engineering excellence, observability, and reliability in distributed systems.
  • Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers through design reviews, documentation standards, and hands-on technical guidance.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope.
  • Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
  • Ability to influence without authority, build consensus across organizational boundaries, and explain technical tradeoffs in business terms.
  • Deep expertise in distributed-systems architecture handling hundreds of millions of transactions and terabytes of data.
  • Significant-scale experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure such as Kafka or Google Pub/Sub.
  • Experience with scalable relational data stores including PostgreSQL, Vitess, and Spanner, as well as NoSQL systems such as Bigtable and Redis.
  • Operational experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP or AWS, including Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and highly available system design.
  • Strong backend engineering foundation, with Go preferred and Python, Java, or C# acceptable.
  • Experience with messaging delivery systems, carrier or aggregator integrations, or telecommunications infrastructure is valued.
  • Data-platform architecture experience involving streaming pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, or distributed analytics is valued.
  • Experience in compliance-heavy environments such as healthcare or fintech is valued.
  • Experience shaping AI/ML infrastructure or integrating AI capabilities into production systems is valued.
  • External technical leadership through open-source contributions, conference speaking, or published technical writing is valued.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work in Lehi, Utah, or remote work from within the United States.
  • Employment is contingent on successful completion of a background check.
  • Weave provides reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities or special needs.
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About Weave

1,001-5,000 employees

Weave builds software for small and medium-sized healthcare practices—especially dental and optometry—that unifies phones, texting, online scheduling, digital forms, payments, and reviews to manage patient communication and operations. It sells its platform as SaaS with industry-specific tools and integrations. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, Weave is a public company listed on the NYSE.

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