Arcadia

Principal Software Engineer

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about 2 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$250k - $350k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own complete vertical slices of cross-team and platform-level work, including multi-quarter migrations, deprecations, and architectural pivots.
  • Set the technical bar for architecture and design, identify architectural drift, and establish reusable engineering patterns.
  • Identify and evaluate platform opportunities, architectures, tools, and capabilities, driving decisions through evidence, alternatives, and tradeoffs.
  • Define SLOs and observability, share on-call ownership, and lead rearchitecture and migration of legacy or high-debt systems.
  • Drive adoption of agentic AI-assisted development through internal tooling, workflows, and AI-native engineering standards.
  • Engage customers and partners during incidents, design reviews, and major rollouts to validate outcomes.
  • Mentor Senior Engineers through code review, design partnership, and direct coaching.
  • Influence engineering practices across teams through architecture standards, operational excellence, AI strategy, written guidance, working examples, and direct involvement in difficult problems.

Requirements

  • Track record of owning multiple cross-team or platform-level initiatives from ambiguous beginnings through long-term operation.
  • Deep technical foundations across distributed systems, data infrastructure, and service architecture, including failure-mode analysis and architectural judgment.
  • Experience owning complex systems through design, rollout, observability, on-call, migration paths, deprecations, and long-term operation.
  • Track record of identifying, evaluating, and driving significant technical investments in platform capability, reliability, or the technology stack.
  • Demonstrable depth with agentic coding tools, context-engineered environments, AI-augmented workflows, custom agents, or AI-native team tooling.
  • Track record of mentoring and coaching Senior Engineers to higher levels of judgment and impact.
  • Strong customer and product orientation, with the ability to engage customers, partners, or downstream consumers before and after shipping.
  • Clear written communication through design documents, reviews, and post-release writeups.
  • Demonstrated influence across team boundaries through technical credibility rather than positional authority.
  • Preferred: experience defining organization-wide AI adoption strategy and measuring its impact.
  • Preferred: healthcare technology, HIPAA-regulated environments, or other regulated-data experience.
  • Preferred: experience incubating product directions or greenfield platform capabilities from ambiguous starting points.
  • Preferred: speaking, writing, or open-source work demonstrating broader technical influence.

Benefits

  • Flexible Time Off, with a company average of approximately 22 days
  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
  • Opportunity to own a consequential platform domain and influence Arcadia’s engineering-wide AI adoption
  • Mission-driven work transforming healthcare and patient care

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Engineering
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About Arcadia

501-1,000 employees

Arcadia is the global utility data and energy solutions platform. With our leading data platform, AI-powered analytics, industry expertise, and expansive partner network, we deliver solutions for every stage of the enterprise energy management lifecycle across carbon, cost, and reliability. Join us at www.arcadia.com/careers.