As a Principal Engineer, you will provide strategic direction for complex software systems, ensuring long-term maintainability, performance, and security. You'll define architectural standards, lead high-impact initiatives, and serve as a technical authority across engineering teams.
What You'll Do
- Establish and drive programs that elevate code quality, system performance, and delivery efficiency across the organization
- Take ownership of security and privacy compliance, ensuring alignment with evolving platform requirements
- Lead operations strategy by defining service level objectives, managing error budgets, and improving incident response processes
- Design and implement comprehensive observability solutions using logs, metrics, traces, and real-time monitoring tools
- Enhance developer workflows through improvements to CI/CD pipelines, branching models, and automated quality controls
- Manage cloud spending and optimize infrastructure efficiency through FinOps practices
- Act as incident commander during critical outages and lead post-mortem reviews to prevent recurrence
- Mentor senior engineers and tech leads, fostering strong technical decision-making and ownership
- Collaborate with product, legal, finance, and support teams to align technical roadmaps with business objectives
- Apply AI tools to accelerate development cycles, testing, and operational troubleshooting
- Oversee the process for R&D tax credit claims with proper documentation and audit readiness
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a principal or lead architecture role
- Proven track record with highly available, high-volume consumer-facing systems
- Deep knowledge of AWS services including IAM, VPC, EC2/ECS/Fargate, S3, KMS, and security monitoring tools
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code platforms such as Terraform or CDK
- Experience with CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions or similar tooling
- Direct experience owning security and privacy in regulated environments
- Strong background in SRE principles, including SLO management and performance testing
- Familiarity with both relational and non-relational data architectures
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or Sentry
- Real-world application of AI in software development or operations
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders across departments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Unity, HTML5, JavaScript, or PHP in game or interactive platforms
- Prior involvement in FinOps initiatives or vendor cost negotiations
- Background managing SRED or comparable R&D incentive programs
- Operational experience with MongoDB or MySQL
Benefits
- Competitive compensation based on market benchmarks
- Uncapped profit-sharing program
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Three weeks of paid vacation from day one
- Annual paid holiday break in December
- 12 paid Care Days each year
- Annual allowance for professional development and continuous learning
- Results-oriented culture with strong emphasis on empathy and inclusion
- Opportunity to contribute directly to globally played game experiences
- Direct access to leadership and influence on strategic direction
