Principal Engineer – Monetization Engineering

🔥 13 hours ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $223k - $317k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

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📋 Description

• Define and communicate the long-term architecture and technical strategy for Fulfillment, including target state, principles, priorities, and migration sequencing • Assess the current platform and address risks across scale, reliability, performance, data correctness, operability, and maintainability • Drive architectural decisions across entitlements, provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management • Establish service boundaries, data ownership, contracts, and integration patterns across Fulfillment, Monetization, billing, Salesforce, and product services • Lead an incremental modernization program while continuing to deliver customer and business value • Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Management, and cross-functional stakeholders to turn architectural direction into executable roadmaps and shipped outcomes • Work hands-on on prototypes, critical implementations, migrations, performance improvements, reliability work, and incident learning • Champion practical AI adoption across Fulfillment, including agentic coding and AI-assisted engineering workflows • Mentor and coach Senior and Staff Engineers and raise the quality of technical decision-making

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience at Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership level • Direct experience building, operating, or modernizing Fulfillment systems, including entitlements, licensing, provisioning, subscription lifecycle, seat management, usage metering, usage billing, or cost controls • Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams and turning architecture into reliable, operated systems • Deep experience with distributed systems, scalability, availability, performance, observability, data integrity, and failure-mode analysis • Comfort working in one or more of Ruby, Go, and Python, with ability to navigate both Backend and Frontend in a polyglot system • Practical experience using artificial intelligence in software engineering, including agentic coding or AI-assisted development workflows • Demonstrated success modernizing mature or degraded platforms without relying on a risky “big bang” rewrite • Experience designing systems spanning multiple deployment models, such as software as a service, Self-Managed, Dedicated, or disconnected environments • Strong product and business judgment, connecting technical investment to customer experience, revenue, operational efficiency, risk reduction, and time to market • Excellent written communication and ability to influence senior stakeholders across teams without formal authority

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave