Weave
Principal Engineer
US Remote · Principal · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 113 days ago
PythonJavaC#Distributed SystemsNoSQLPostgreSQLRedisAWSGCPKubernetesKafkaMachine LearningRecruitingLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoringWriting
About the role
- Your success will be measured not by your personal output, but by how the organization's technical capability grows through your influence, mentorship, and strategic leadership.
- You'll be a visible leader whose approach to problem-solving becomes the template for how engineering operates at Weave.
- AI may assist with things like writing job descriptions, scheduling interviews, or reviewing applications against job-related criteria.
Responsibilities
- Drive architectural coherence across multiple teams, identifying and resolving cross-system dependencies and technical debt at the platform level
- Lead technical due diligence for major initiatives, including build-vs-buy decisions, vendor evaluations, and platform migrations
- Identify and solve company-level technical problems that span organizational boundaries-the problems that are too complex, too cross-cutting, or too ambiguous for any single team to own
- Compile information across systems, teams, and projects to develop comprehensive solutions with extensive validation, rollback, and testing plans
- Cut through noise and hype to identify genuine strategic value; advocate for and lead key initiatives that prepare Weave for emerging challenges
- Actively mentor Staff and Senior Engineers across the fellowship, developing the next generation of technical leaders
- Elevate architectural thinking across teams through design reviews, documentation standards, and hands-on guidance
- Build organizational capability that persists beyond your individual contributions
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build consensus across organizational boundaries, and translate technical tradeoffs into business terms
- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating services that handle hundreds of millions of transactions and terabytes of data
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope
- Proven experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale
- Operational experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP or AWS, including Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and highly available system design
Benefits
- Own the multi-year technical vision for messaging infrastructure, ensuring architectural decisions position Weave for scale, reliability, and competitive advantage
Visa & Work Authorization
- roblem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legall
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