Prinicipal Software Engineer
NetDocuments18 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the charter, roadmap, success metrics, architecture, and technical direction for the first Developer Experience team.
- Recruit, hire, and mentor Staff and Senior Software Engineers while establishing the team’s engineering culture and technical bar.
- Partner with distributed engineering teams to identify architecture, tooling, and developer productivity challenges and translate them into an execution plan.
- Build scalable internal developer tools, platform capabilities, and infrastructure-as-code solutions for company-wide adoption.
- Establish shared technical standards, lead architecture and code reviews, and communicate decisions through design documents and technical reviews.
- Define and track developer productivity and DORA metrics to prioritize work and measure the team’s impact.
- Drive complex cross-team initiatives and adoption without relying on formal reporting authority.
- Travel to the US approximately 1–2 times per year to collaborate with engineering leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience and current operation at the Principal level or above.
- Proven experience setting architecture and technical direction across multiple systems or teams.
- Experience building internal developer tooling, developer productivity systems, CI/CD systems, or platform engineering capabilities at scale.
- Experience leading complex cross-team technical initiatives across geographies and time zones without formal authority.
- Strong fluency in C#, .NET, Python, AWS, and Java.
- Experience defining and using developer productivity metrics such as DORA metrics.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring Staff and Senior engineers.
- Strong technical writing skills and experience producing architecture documents, design proposals, and technical standards.
- Experience hiring and building a team from the ground up.
- Preferred experience founding or scaling a Developer Experience or Platform Engineering team.
- Preferred experience serving as a technical liaison across distributed US and India engineering teams.
- Experience in legal technology, professional-services SaaS, or regulated enterprise software is a plus.
- Public technical leadership through conference speaking, technical writing, open-source contributions, or broadly adopted architectural patterns is a plus.
- Experience partnering with a Product Manager to develop a roadmap under ambiguity is a plus.
Benefits
- Occasional travel to the US, approximately 1–2 times per year, is expected.
- The company highlights work-life flexibility, employee appreciation, inclusive culture, and compensation and benefits recognition.
- NetDocuments is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and harassment-free workplace.
About NetDocuments
NetDocuments provides a cloud-based document and email management platform used by law firms, corporate legal departments, and public sector teams. Delivered as SaaS, it covers search, collaboration, governance, and compliance, and integrates with Microsoft 365 and DocuSign. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, the company is owned by Clearlake Capital and reports adoption by more than 7,000 legal organizations worldwide.