Principal Engineer

Industrial Color

Principal Engineer at Usglobaledit developing serverless platform solutions for major brands. Leading engineering teams and making critical architectural decisions in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzure

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Make architectural decisions for our serverless platform – you own the technical direction
Review code, challenge approaches, and guide the team toward better solutions
Jump into our most important technical problems and get hands on in the code
Identify what's slowing us down (tech debt, process, tooling) and fix it
Work with Product to translate "what we need" into "what we're building"
Keep an eye on AWS costs and performance

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years building software, 3+ years leading engineering teams
Deep AWS experience, especially serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions)
Strong backend chops (C# is great, but any similar language works if you're solid)
You've managed distributed teams and made it work across time zones
You can review code, make architecture decisions, and explain why your approach is better
You know how to tell Product "no" when you need to
You're a doer. You don't just delegate – you jump in when needed
You can move fast without cutting corners
You're comfortable with ambiguity and figure things out as you go
Familiarity with CloudFormation and Azure DevOps
Experience adding AI/ML to existing products (Bedrock, OpenAI, etc.)
Background in creative production, media, or SaaS
Experience with Datadog
AWS cost optimization experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

major medical, dental and vision insurance
FSA
HSA
employee discounts

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

AWSserverlessLambdaAPI GatewayStep FunctionsC#CloudFormationAzure DevOpsAI/MLDatadog

Soft Skills

leadershipcode reviewarchitecture decision-makingproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptabilityteam managementtime zone coordinationdecision-makinghands-on involvement