Principal Software Engineer
Western Governors University2 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.
- Build and ship production-grade software while establishing engineering standards.
- Design and evolve scalable, observable, reliable, secure, and supportable cloud-native architectures.
- Evaluate technical decisions through build, buy, borrow, or bot considerations focused on speed-to-value and fiscal responsibility.
- Mentor engineers on modern software practices, AI-assisted development, and emerging technologies.
- Prototype tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns through proof-of-value initiatives.
- Drive engineering excellence and repeatable delivery patterns across multiple teams.
- Identify architectural inefficiencies and technical debt and propose data-grounded solutions.
- Communicate technical strategy, dependencies, tradeoffs, and risks to executive leadership.
- Support operational readiness, incident response, day-2 supportability, and high-impact incident leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 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, 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.
- Equivalent relevant experience may substitute for education at a ratio of one year of experience per one year of education, at the hiring manager’s discretion.
- Preferred: master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred: Kafka/Confluent, integration middleware, AWS, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability platforms, AI/ML platforms, LLM integration, and agentic frameworks.
- Preferred: higher education, EdTech, or regulated-industry experience and experience across multiple industry verticals.
- Preferred: ITIL v4 Foundation or higher, AWS Solutions Architect, or CKA certification.
Benefits
- 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, flexible paid sick time, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
- Occasional travel of up to 20%, typically for company summits one to two times per year.