Principal Software Engineer - PMTS
InformaticaBase Salary
$197k - $314k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, implement, test, and deliver highly scalable AI and data-management products from design through production.
- Serve as final architectural authority by approving or rejecting major designs and establishing cross-cutting standards, review processes, and engineering practices.
- Define architectural principles, frameworks, multi-year roadmaps, security and cloud-infrastructure alignment, cost optimization, and Build-vs.-Buy and M&A diligence strategies.
- Own enterprise software capabilities including scalability, fault tolerance, extensibility, maintainability, security, and observability.
- Design sophisticated systems, drive technical direction and thought leadership, and publish or present technical work through blogs, whitepapers, patents, reports, and industry events.
- Mentor architects and senior and staff-level engineers, communicate architectural standards broadly, and align cross-functional teams.
- Partner with Dev, QA, product management, and UX to evaluate technical feasibility and ensure business and quality requirements are met.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and support customer and production escalations.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience building highly scalable SaaS applications and platforms.
- Proven ability to independently deliver large, sophisticated projects and drive long-term design strategies across multiple complex projects.
- Track record of serving as an architectural decision-maker, owning design-review gates, setting standards, and driving cross-team alignment.
- Deep data-management and data-platform expertise, including data modeling, RDBMS and NoSQL databases, SQL/PL-SQL, data pipelines, distributed data processing, and large-scale data lake, warehouse, or lakehouse systems.
- Experience building or delivering AI/GenAI platforms and products at scale, including agentic workflows, RAG, vector search, LLM workflow orchestration, and supporting data foundations.
- Experience designing architectures for complex performance, scalability, and fault-tolerance challenges.
- Deep object-oriented programming knowledge with at least one OO language, preferably Java, plus familiarity with a high-level language and web framework such as Node.js, Express, or Hapi.
- Demonstrated thought leadership through technical reports, presentations, blogs, papers, or patents.
- Strong collaboration, interpersonal, communication, debugging, and cross-functional relationship-building skills.
- Experience with the full software lifecycle in highly agile and ambiguous environments.
- Preferred: experience with data integration, data governance, lineage, metadata management, data quality, identity resolution, API development, API lifecycle management, client SDKs, predictive and generative AI, AI/ML observability, evaluation, guardrails, streaming and event-driven architectures, real-time and batch pipelines, COGS optimization, Build-vs.-Buy or M&A technical diligence, Agile methodologies, pair programming, CI/CD, and customer production escalations.
Benefits
- Time-off programs.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Mental health support.
- Paid parental leave.
- Life and disability insurance.
- 401(k) plan.
- Employee stock purchasing program.
- Salesforce uses an inclusive, nondiscriminatory employment policy and provides accommodations during the application and recruiting process.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com