Principal Software Developer – Platform Integrations

Position Overview

Our Trust Software Engineering team is seeking a Principal Software Developer to join the Platform Integrations group in a fast-paced, agile environment. This is a senior technical leadership role with broad organizational impact.

In this role, you will serve as a technical authority and trusted advisor for integrations across the development platform, particularly in areas related to CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and platform reliability.

You will help design and evolve scalable platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to build, test, and deliver software securely and efficiently. While familiarity with security practices is beneficial, the primary focus of this role is platform architecture, developer experience, and reliable system integrations.

You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product management, security teams, and cross-functional partners to shape technical strategy, influence architectural direction, and drive engineering best practices across the organization.

The ideal candidate is highly self-directed, comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, and capable of solving complex platform and integration challenges with long-term organizational impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical vision and architecture for platform integrations across development pipelines, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with organizational goals.
• Design and evolve reusable platform capabilities and integration patterns that improve consistency and reliability across repositories and engineering workflows.
• Translate complex platform and integration requirements into practical, business-aligned technical solutions.
• Solve highly complex, cross-cutting engineering challenges by taking a broad systems perspective and identifying pragmatic, scalable solutions.
• Partner with engineering, platform, and security teams to improve the developer experience across CI/CD pipelines and internal tooling.
• Influence the technical roadmap, balancing delivery needs with long-term maintainability, reliability, and platform scalability.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, standards, and patterns for building and operating reliable platform integrations.
• Lead or significantly influence large, cross-team technical initiatives within the Trust or Platform Engineering space.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the technical bar through design reviews, architectural guidance, and technical leadership.
• Stay informed on evolving industry practices related to platform engineering, CI/CD ecosystems, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership and impact beyond a single team.
• Strong experience designing and building scalable cloud-native systems in AWS.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, with the ability to design, build, and review production-grade systems.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms or developer tooling ecosystems using technologies such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of containerized and cloud-native architectures, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing systems that prioritize reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Experience working in Agile engineering environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with additional programming languages such as Go or Java.
• Experience working with developer platform tooling, CI/CD integrations, or DevSecOps environments.
• Familiarity with secure development practices, security scanning tools, or software supply chain concepts.
• Experience influencing architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams without direct management responsibility.

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