
Principal Software Engineer
CivicPlus
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $145,000 - $225,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead technical evaluation and integration across acquired engineering teams, establishing shared architecture, standards, and platforms while navigating legacy constraints toward a unified SaaS vision.
- Foster a collaborative, high-trust engineering culture by defining shared practices, mentoring engineers, and enabling cross-team alignment through forums and working groups.
- Provide architectural leadership for scalable, reliable SaaS systems across multi-cloud environments, and guide the responsible integration of AI into products, services, and internal tooling.
- Drive modernization of CI/CD, observability, and release practices to improve developer productivity, quality, and speed across teams.
- Act as a technical multiplier through architectural reviews, prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring acquisitions strengthen and simplify the overall platform.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a senior or principal engineer working on large-scale SaaS products.
- Significant prior experience supporting or leading technical integration during acquisitions.
- Deep expertise in multi-cloud architectures (AWS & Azure) and distributed systems design.
- Strong experience developing and integrating AI technologies into production systems and/or products.
- A career-long track record of CI/CD ownership, build systems modernization, and DevOps-oriented development practices.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills, ability to align diverse teams and build trust across organizations.
- A reputation for elevating engineering culture: curiosity, experimentation, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to operate autonomously, drive clarity in ambiguous environments, and influence leaders at all levels.
- Demonstrated ability to balance short-term pragmatism with long-term architectural vision.
- Physical requirements: Able to work additional hours during the week after hours and on the weekend with 24-7 on-call status.
- Able to travel frequently and efficiently across a large geographic territory, with little down-time between periods of travel.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Time Off
- 401(k) plan
- and more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SaaS architecturemulti-cloud architectureAWSAzureAI integrationCI/CDDevOpsdistributed systems designbuild systems modernizationobservability
Soft skills
communicationfacilitationcollaborationtrust buildingautonomyinfluencecuriosityexperimentationcraftsmanshipcontinuous improvement