Principal Engineer – Clari Core

Salesloft

Principal Engineer developing cloud-based AI-driven applications at Clari + Salesloft. Leading engineering excellence for a next-gen revenue platform with innovative technologies.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $238,000 - $265,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGRPCJavaKafkaKubernetesMongoDBNoSQLPostgresPrometheusRayRedisSplunkSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape future-proof interfaces that are easy to build against and meet the requirements of client-facing teams
Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers, and other cross-functional partners to conceptualize and build new features for our growing user base
Produce high-quality results by leading large cross-functional projects that have a significant impact on the business
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack, and uplevel the observability and reliability of the overall system
Own architecture decisions across multiple teams, drive long term technical strategy, and raise the bar for engineering excellence company-wide
Mentor Staff and Senior engineers

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of experience in building distributed systems or platform infrastructure designed for high-scale, data-intensive workloads
Expert-level proficiency in Java or a similar object-oriented language and familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Airflow, Kubernetes, Ray, Terraform), service frameworks (FastAPI, gRPC), and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Splunk)
Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS or GCP, including Kubernetes clusters (GKE/EKS), serverless architectures, and managed services (e.g., Lambda, Cloud Run, ECS)
Architected solutions requiring distributed data infrastructure: message queues (Kafka, Kinesis), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), database optimization, and building resilient, fault-tolerant architectures
Expertise with SQL (postgres) / NoSQL (MongoDB) and data warehouse modeling; capable of optimizing complex data queries, joins, aggregations, and transformations
Solid improvements of platform monitoring and optimizations, including identifying performance bottlenecks, latency optimization, cost management, and scaling high-throughput API services efficiently.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive wages and salaries
Performance bonus
Benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans

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Hard Skills & Tools

Javaobject-oriented programmingdistributed systemsplatform infrastructurecloud infrastructureSQLNoSQLdata warehouse modelingdatabase optimizationfault-tolerant architectures

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingcommunication