Principal Software Engineer

2 hours ago

Salt Lake City, UT, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$180k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

Partner with engineering and product leadership to define technical strategy and delivery roadmaps that improve the student experience at scale.
Build and ship production-grade software while establishing engineering standards and repeatable delivery patterns across multiple teams.
Design and evolve cloud-native architectures emphasizing scalability, observability, reliability, security, and operational supportability.
Evaluate technical decisions through a build, buy, borrow, or bot framework focused on speed-to-value, sustainability, and fiscal responsibility.
Mentor engineers on modern software engineering practices, AI-assisted development workflows, and emerging technologies.
Prototype tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns through proof-of-value initiatives.
Identify architectural inefficiencies and technical debt and propose practical, cost-effective solutions grounded in data.
Communicate technical strategy, dependencies, tradeoffs, and risks to executive leadership.
Support operational readiness, incident response, day-two supportability, and leadership during high-impact incidents.
Partner with infrastructure, cloud, security, architecture, and product teams as a peer technical leader.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience at the hiring manager’s discretion.
12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including architecture, delivery leadership, and technical mentorship across multiple teams.
Experience building and operating enterprise web applications using Java, REST APIs, SQL, and Git.
Experience designing and delivering integrations with third-party and internal platforms.
Track record working in large-scale enterprise IT organizations with established operational processes.
Preferred experience with Kafka/Confluent and integration middleware such as Apache Camel or MuleSoft.
Preferred hands-on AWS experience with ECS/EKS, Lambda, SNS/SQS, API Gateway, and Terraform.
Preferred experience with Spring Boot, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and observability platforms such as Dynatrace or Datadog.
Familiarity with AI/ML platforms, LLM integration, and agentic frameworks is preferred.
Higher education, EdTech, or regulated-industry experience is preferred.
ITIL v4 Foundation or higher, AWS Solutions Architect, or CKA certification is preferred.

Full-time regular position with 40 standard weekly hours and eligibility for bonuses.
Medical, dental, vision, telehealth, mental healthcare, health savings account, and flexible spending account benefits.
Basic and voluntary life insurance, disability coverage, accident coverage, critical illness coverage, hospital indemnity coverage, and legal and identity theft coverage.
Retirement savings plan, wellbeing program, and discounted WGU tuition.
Flexible paid time off and paid sick time with no accrual requirement, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
Occasional travel of up to 20%, typically one to two company summits per year.