Principal Software Engineer

🕒 January 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

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CivicPlus

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2001

📋 Compliance

🏛️ Government

☁️ SaaS

Compliance • Government • SaaS

CivicPlus is a leading provider of technology solutions for local governments, aimed at transforming the way municipalities operate and engage with their residents. With over 25 years of experience, CivicPlus offers a broad range of software solutions designed to automate processes, digitize services, and enhance civic experiences, all while ensuring compliance and accessibility. Their offerings include municipal websites, mass notification systems, social media archiving, 311 CRM system, and agenda and meeting management, among others. CivicPlus focuses on delivering a modern government experience, providing flexible, scalable, and customizable solutions to meet the complex needs of public sector operations. Their technology is trusted by over 10,000 local governments and is designed to improve communication, streamline workflows, and increase civic participation and satisfaction.

📋 Description

• Lead technical evaluation and integration across acquired engineering teams, establishing shared architecture, standards, and platforms while navigating legacy constraints toward a unified SaaS vision. • Foster a collaborative, high-trust engineering culture by defining shared practices, mentoring engineers, and enabling cross-team alignment through forums and working groups. • Provide architectural leadership for scalable, reliable SaaS systems across multi-cloud environments, and guide the responsible integration of AI into products, services, and internal tooling. • Drive modernization of CI/CD, observability, and release practices to improve developer productivity, quality, and speed across teams. • Act as a technical multiplier through architectural reviews, prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring acquisitions strengthen and simplify the overall platform.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a senior or principal engineer working on large-scale SaaS products. • Significant prior experience supporting or leading technical integration during acquisitions. • Deep expertise in multi-cloud architectures (AWS & Azure) and distributed systems design. • Strong experience developing and integrating AI technologies into production systems and/or products. • A career-long track record of CI/CD ownership, build systems modernization, and DevOps-oriented development practices. • Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills, ability to align diverse teams and build trust across organizations. • A reputation for elevating engineering culture: curiosity, experimentation, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement. • Ability to operate autonomously, drive clarity in ambiguous environments, and influence leaders at all levels. • Demonstrated ability to balance short-term pragmatism with long-term architectural vision. • Physical requirements: Able to work additional hours during the week after hours and on the weekend with 24-7 on-call status. • Able to travel frequently and efficiently across a large geographic territory, with little down-time between periods of travel.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Flexible Time Off • 401(k) plan • and more.