Principal Engineer, Govern

What You’ll Do:

• Plan improvements and features with a 6 month view and ensure that OKR-level goals are aligned across the sub-department
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity while looking for innovation opportunities between several teams and demonstrating a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope
• Interface with Engineering Managers and Senior Management, and enable Staff Engineers to engage on stage-level aspects of larger (sub-department wide) initiatives. Provide a point of escalation for sub-department teams facing complex technical challenges
• Propose initial technical implementations which support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your sub-department
• Identify slow and inefficient code across multiple products

Examples of initiatives you will work on:

• Key member of the team providing architectural leadership for initiatives directly affect the Govern sub-department for example the modular monolith for a new authentication service
• Key member of the team implementing complex features such as custom roles and extending features to support cells and organizations
• Improving database performance with a focus on large data sets
• Cross-stage alignment of technical direction both inside Secure/Govern and with other stages such as Create and Verify

What you’ll bring:

• 2+ years of experience as a Staff Engineer or an Engineering Manager (or equivalent roles).
• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails. Significant experience with Vue.js is also a plus.
• Familiarity and high interest in learning security and compliance.