College Board

College Board

Principal Engineer, Bluebook Platform

Remote - USA · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$220k-$230kDetected 31 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonReactNode.jsDistributed SystemsAWSA/B TestingAccessibilityLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Our work sits at the intersection of content authoring, complex workflows, accessibility, cloud-native platform architecture, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities.
  • As a Principal Engineer, you will operate as a platform-level technical leader responsible for helping the organization solve complex, cross-cutting challenges that span teams, products, and domains.
  • Rather than owning a single system, you will work across a broad portfolio of initiatives, helping teams navigate ambiguity, align on direction, and make sound technical decisions while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term platform evolution.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical direction across multiple teams and systems, ensuring decisions support both immediate delivery needs and long-term platform goals.
  • Partner with Engineering Managers, Architects, and senior+ engineers to align technical investments, reduce duplication, and improve platform cohesion.
  • Lead technical discovery, prototyping, and experimentation efforts that help shape future product and platform direction while reducing implementation risk.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering leaders to shape roadmaps, evaluate opportunities, and solve high-impact organizational challenges.
  • Foster alignment across teams working on interconnected systems, ensuring local decisions support broader platform goals and organizational outcomes.
  • Mentor senior engineers, lead engineers, and emerging technical leaders through coaching, design reviews, and technical guidance.
  • Facilitate knowledge sharing and create clarity around engineering standards, architectural decisions, and platform strategy.
  • Build consensus across technical and non-technical stakeholders when requirements, priorities, or technical approaches are not initially aligned.
  • At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.

Requirements

  • All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.
  • The ability to travel 3-5 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business.
  • Success in this role comes from technical judgment, communication, and the ability to bring people together around shared solutions as much as from individual technical contributions.
  • 10+ years of experience building and operating cloud-native software systems, including significant experience working across multiple teams, products, or domains.
  • Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, React, Node.js, AWS, and serverless architectures, along with curiosity about emerging technologies and AI-assisted development.

Skills

  • A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
  • Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal

Compensation

  • We're a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.

Benefits

  • You'll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.
  • A systems-thinking mindset with the ability to balance platform health, business outcomes, engineering velocity, and long-term platform reuse.

Company info

  • The Create domain enables educators to author the tasks that power all College Board assessments, including the SAT Suite, AP, and CLEP.
  • As the starting point of the assessment lifecycle, Create sits upstream of many critical systems and workflows that support assessment delivery, scoring, reporting, and student outcomes.
  • Our teams are responsible for a growing ecosystem of custom-built authoring applications, shared platform services, and core capabilities that support assessment creation at scale.
  • Today, we are focused on evolving these capabilities into a more unified authoring platform, bringing together previously independent tools through shared models, services, and experiences that reduce complexity while increasing consistency, reuse, and long-term maintainability.
  • Built primarily with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, React, Node.js, and AWS, we emphasize experimentation, serverless design, thoughtful platform evolution, and long-term scalability.
  • About the Opportunity
  • You will partner closely with Engineering Managers, Product leaders, Architects, and senior engineers to shape strategy, influence priorities, and drive alignment across a growing ecosystem of assessment platforms.
  • A significant part of the role involves transforming ambiguous business and technical challenges into clear technical strategies, helping stakeholders evaluate tradeoffs, and building consensus across teams with differing priorities and perspectives.
  • The work requires frequent context switching across teams and initiatives, moving between technical discovery, architecture, stakeholder conversations, and organizational decision-making while maintaining a clear view of the broader platform strategy.
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