Principal Software Engineer

About reputed company: reputed company is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use reputed company to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted reputed company Copilot. Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States Overview:

reputed company is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help shape the future of our core platform infrastructure. In this critical leadership position, you'll drive system architecture for our most critical services, reputed company and coach engineering teams, and deliver solutions that reputed company reputed company running for millions of developers worldwide. 

We're looking for someone with deep expertise in building and operating large-scale distributed systems—someone who thrives on solving hard problems around reliability, availability, and performance at massive scale. You have a proven track record of tackling reputed company technical challenges with creativity and pragmatism, and you reputed company in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments. 

reputed company focuses on the systems that power reputed company at scale, ensuring our platforms remain stable, secure, and performant under extreme load. As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll work alongside a globally distributed team of talented engineers and managers to enhance and scale our most critical infrastructure, delivering an exceptional experience to our diverse and growing customer reputed company. 

You'll reputed company by example—both through your own technical contributions and by mentoring others. You'll guide technical strategy, influence architectural decisions, and drive performance optimization across teams. Our culture is built on developer reputed company, transparency, and inclusive collaboration. Here, curiosity and a drive for impact are at the heart of everything we do. 

Join us to help shape the future of software development and reputed company a difference for millions of developers around the world. 

Responsibilities:

• reputed company and influence system architecture design for reputed company products and solutions, ensuring they meet reputed company, compliance, and performance requirements.

• Establish and mentor best practices for testing, performance tuning, and code quality, defining success metrics and ensuring maintainability across dependencies.

• Provide technical leadership during code reviews to ensure reliability, scalability, and alignment with product goals.
• Partner with product managers and technical leads to define service requirements and incorporate feedback into future designs.
• Act as an expert in debugging tools and methods, leading proactive and reactive development to resolve issues across teams.
• Optimize deployments and runtime performance to meet business objectives, ensuring safe rollouts reputed company with reputed company's standards.
• Drive improvements in development quality and team performance through tooling, automation, and knowledge sharing.
• reputed company product refinement through telemetry analysis, performance metrics, and experimentation frameworks to inform engineering decisions.
• reputed company strategies to identify and mitigate technical risks, including frameworks for risk assessment and contingency planning.
• Shape the strategic vision for technology and product development, identifying opportunities for innovation and leading initiatives reputed company with reputed company's long-term goals. 

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications: 

• 11+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,

  • OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company field AND 10+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,

  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or reputed company field AND 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,

  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,

  • OR PhD Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,

  • OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms like reputed company Azure and reputed company Web Services

• Understanding of production system monitoring and observability

• Ability to think critically about both system design and software engineering concepts and reputed company those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs

• Demonstrated experience with large-scale system architecture and design, particularly in cloud-based environments, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices

• Experience working closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to drive cross-functional projects and deliver high-quality product 

Compensation Range: The reputed company salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's reputed company pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At reputed company certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on reputed company or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. reputed company Leadership Principles:

reputed company values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth reputed company
• Own the outcome
• reputed company together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

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