Senior Principal Software Engineer – Reliability Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Lead software design and development initiatives across various engineering teams and principal software engineers.

• Offer technical guidance, expertise, and effective communication of best practices throughout assigned IT portfolios.

• Collaborate with third-party vendors to fulfill technical requirements and enhance interoperability.

• Support 4–6 development teams working on diverse products and APIs.

• Design and refactor systems to optimize cloud expenditures.

• Spot opportunities to streamline processes and improve codebases.

• Facilitate portfolio-level Principal meetings for alignment, consistency, and knowledge sharing.

• Create reusable foundational code components across the portfolio.

• Develop proofs of concept using new technologies and promote portfolio-wide adoption.

• Monitor cloud resource utilization and identify opportunities for cost reduction.

• Address and resolve highly complex challenges faced by teams.

• Attend and present at conferences.

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports.

• Conduct annual and mid-year performance reviews and offer constructive feedback.

• Attract, retain, develop, and motivate talented individuals.

• Define technology solutions and contribute to the creation of technology roadmaps.

• Eliminate roadblocks and bottlenecks in cross-functional projects.

• Promote thought leadership and innovation.

• Escalate critical issues and outages.

• Support project, product, and support teams.

• Resolve technology disputes among local teams.

• Collaborate with vendors on software product feature enhancements.

• Advocate for effective tooling and technology utilization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be at least eighteen years old.

• Must have legal authorization to work in the United States.

• Proficient in at least two technologies utilized by THD IT.

• Familiarity with common business processes relevant to the retail industry.

• Experience in Agile/Lean development settings.

• 7 years of relevant work experience required.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.

• One area of expertise must include a programming language.

• Ability to quickly comprehend complex systems.

• Mastery in assigned domains.

• Active involvement in or leadership of professional groups related to specific domains.

• 5 years of previous leadership experience is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote/Virtual work arrangement.

• Overnight travel typically ranges from 5% to 20% of the time.

• Opportunities for leadership, mentoring, and coaching.

• Access to conference attendance and professional learning opportunities.