Principal Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of complete vertical slices of cross-team or platform-level initiatives, which include multi-quarter migrations, deprecations, and architectural shifts.

• Establish the technical standards for designs, recognize architectural deviations, and cultivate engineering practices.

• Discover and assess platform-level opportunities, driving decisions based on evidence, alternatives, and tradeoffs.

• Define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and enhance observability while sharing on-call responsibilities.

• Lead the rearchitecture of legacy systems or areas with significant technical debt through migration and deprecation strategies.

• Promote the adoption of agentic AI-assisted development via internal tools, workflows, and standards.

• Engage with customers and partners directly during incidents, design reviews, and major deployments.

• Mentor Senior Engineers through code reviews, collaborative design, and direct coaching.

• Influence engineering practices across various teams through written guidance, practical examples, and active involvement in challenging problems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience managing multiple cross-team or platform-level projects from ambiguity to long-term operations.

• Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, data infrastructure, and service architecture.

• Capability to manage complex systems from design to deployment and long-term operation, including observability, on-call duties, migration paths, and deprecations.

• Proven track record of identifying and pursuing non-obvious technical investments.

• Demonstrated expertise in agentic AI-assisted development, agentic coding tools, context-engineered environments, and AI-enhanced workflows.

• Experience in building, shipping, or significantly influencing AI-native tools, custom agents, or team practices.

• History of mentoring and coaching Senior Engineers to enhance their judgment and impact.

• Strong orientation towards customer and product needs.

• Effective written communication skills through design documents, reviews, and post-release reports.

• Demonstrated ability to influence across team boundaries through technical credibility.

• Preferred: experience in defining organization-wide AI adoption strategies.

• Preferred: background in healthcare technology, HIPAA-regulated environments, or other regulated data domains.

• Preferred: experience in incubating new product directions or developing greenfield platform capabilities.

• Preferred: a speaking, writing, or open-source presence that showcases broader technical influence.

• Familiarity with lakehouse architecture and open table formats.

• Knowledge of technologies such as Apache Spark, dbt, Kafka, Cassandra/Scylla, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, AWS, TypeScript/Node, Python, Go, and Java/Kotlin.

• Must adhere to Arcadia security policies and procedures to safeguard PHI and Arcadia's intellectual property.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Flexible Time Off (averaging approximately 22 days annually).

• Opportunity to take ownership of one of Arcadia's most impactful platform domains and shape its future direction.

• Direct influence on the adoption of AI within Arcadia's engineering organization.

• Work for a mission-driven company that is transforming the healthcare industry.