Principal Software Engineer, DevX Architecture

Design and ship developer tooling, core frameworks, and reusable templates that raise engineering productivity and quality

Advance our agentic development ecosystem: Claude Code configuration and governance, plugins and skills, and MCP servers

Strengthen the Auth service and agent identity model using Keycloak, OAuth2, and OIDC

Build and operate services with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes

Define standards, guardrails, and best practices, then drive adoption across product teams

Continuously assess, root cause, and improve system reliability and performance

Define, communicate, and drive technical solutions and complex projects from concept through successful completion, ensuring clear direction, accountability, and measurable outcomes

Partner effectively across teams to influence decisions, resolve complex technical challenges, and build alignment without relying solely on direct authority

Demonstrate strong business judgment by prioritizing work based on customer and business impact, translating technical decisions into measurable outcomes, and consistently focusing on delivering meaningful results.

Eight or more years of hands-on, fullstack software design and development, including at least five years of Java. Experience with client and server side JavaScript, including React, Node, and Remix, along with Terraform experience is a plus

Experience building performant, large-scale web applications and cloud-native systems on AWS or similar cloud providers

Working knowledge of authentication and identity standards (OAuth2/OIDC), or a strong appetite to learn them

Hands-on experience applying modern AI coding tools (assistants, agents, MCP) to real engineering work

Comfort writing tests, using observability tools, and owning projects end to end

Curious, collaborative, and eager to learn

Demonstrated deep expertise in a relevant technical stack, including critical code reviews, scalability, architecture, testing strategy, performance, and cross-team integration.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

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