Principal Engineer
Weave
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lehi • Utah • United States
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About the role
- Own the multi-year technical vision for messaging infrastructure, ensuring architectural decisions position Weave for scale, reliability, and competitive advantage
- Drive architectural coherence across multiple teams, identifying and resolving cross-system dependencies and technical debt at the platform level
- Lead technical due diligence for major initiatives, including build-vs-buy decisions, vendor evaluations, and platform migrations
- Identify and solve company-level technical problems that span organizational boundaries—the problems that are too complex, too cross-cutting, or too ambiguous for any single team to own
- Compile information across systems, teams, and projects to develop comprehensive solutions with extensive validation, rollback, and testing plans
- Forecast project costs in time, money, and opportunity cost; account for impacts across the business
- Monitor the industry landscape, anticipate where messaging and data infrastructure are heading, and ensure Weave stays ahead of the curve
- Cut through noise and hype to identify genuine strategic value; advocate for and lead key initiatives that prepare Weave for emerging challenges
- Shape company-wide standards for engineering excellence, observability, and reliability in distributed systems
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope
- Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build consensus across organizational boundaries, and translate technical tradeoffs into business terms
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating services that handle hundreds of millions of transactions and terabytes of data
- Proven experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale
- Strong background in scalable data stores—both relational (PostgreSQL at scale, Vitess, Spanner) and NoSQL (Bigtable, Redis, etc.)
- Operational experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP or AWS, including Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and highly available system design
- Solid backend engineering foundation (Go preferred; Python, Java, or C# acceptable)
Benefits
- Actively mentor Staff and Senior Engineers across the fellowship, developing the next generation of technical leaders
- Elevate architectural thinking across teams through design reviews, documentation standards, and hands-on guidance
- Build organizational capability that persists beyond your individual contributions
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringdistributed systems architectureevent streamingmessaging infrastructurescalable data storesrelational databasesNoSQL databasescloud-native infrastructureinfrastructure-as-codebackend engineering
Soft Skills
technical leadershipinfluence without authoritybuild consensustranslate technical tradeoffsproblem-solvingcross-team collaborationarchitectural coherenceadvocacy for initiativesstrategic value identificationproject cost forecasting