Principal Engineer

Responsibilities

Technical Direction & Architecture ( Defines and evolves the long-term technical and architectural direction across platforms and domains, ensuring alignment with business strategy and customer outcomes)

Translates business strategy into architectural principles, reference architectures, and multi-platform technical roadmaps

Leads the design of large-scale, distributed, and mission-critical systems across teams

Balances delivery speed, cost, risk, and long-term sustainability in major technical decisions

Engineering Excellence & Governance ( Ensures engineering practices, standards, and decision-making enable high-quality, consistent delivery at scale)

Establishes and champions pragmatic engineering and architecture standards that are adopted in practice.

Provides architectural governance through design reviews, decision records, and reference implementations.

Sets expectations for scalability, performance, resilience, security, and reliability in system design.

Platform Health, Risk & Sustainability ( Owns the long-term health and resilience of critical platforms by proactively addressing systemic risk and technical debt)

Identifies and resolves cross-domain architectural risks before they impact delivery or operations.

Acts as the final technical escalation point for complex, ambiguous, or systemic engineering challenges.

Leads root-cause analysis for major incidents, ensuring systemic fixes and sustainable outcomes.

Technical Leadership & Organizational Influence ( Raises the technical capability and effectiveness of the organization through influence, mentorship, and trusted technical leadership)

Mentors senior engineers and technical leaders to build architectural judgement and systems thinking.

Raises the technical bar through exemplary design quality, documentation, and decision-making.

Communicates technical trade-offs, risks, and opportunities clearly to senior and executive leaders.

Capabilities

Architecture Leadership

Technical Depth

Systems Thinking

Complex Problem Solving

Strategic Technology Judgement

Influence Without Authority

Delivery Enablement

Qualifications

12+ years of experience in software engineering, including significant time working on large-scale, complex, or mission-critical systems

Proven experience designing & evolving architectures across multiple teams, products, or platforms

Track record of influencing technical direction beyond a single team or domain

Demonstrated success leading or shaping major system transformations, platform initiatives, or modernization efforts

Experience operating at senior stakeholder level, communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Hands-on experience in modern engineering practices (e.g., cloud-native systems, distributed architectures, CI/CD, reliability engineering, security-by-design, AI)