Principal Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $148.4k - $185.5k / year

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ITHAKA

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1995

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📚 Education

Consulting • Logistics • Education

ITHAKA is a nonprofit organization that improves access to knowledge and education worldwide by operating digital libraries and preservation services, conducting research and advising colleges, and developing tools and programs to support teaching, learning, and scholarly communication. Its suite of services includes JSTOR, Portico, and other platforms that deliver scholarly journals, books, images, and primary sources to students, researchers, libraries, and publishers, while also advancing initiatives in open access, college affordability, credit mobility, and preservation of digital collections.

📋 Description

• Lead the technology vision for JSTOR’s Business platform team for Books and Royalty Payments • Define and evolve backend architecture, distributed systems, search platform, APIs, data pipelines, and engineering practices • Define and drive the multi-year backend technology strategy and architectural roadmap • Lead architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams through influence and technical leadership • Evaluate emerging backend, AI, and distributed systems technologies • Design, build, and improve highly available ordering and digital book fulfillment systems • Drive practical use of AI in engineering and operations • Establish analytics, experimentation, observability, service reliability, and platform operations strategies • Define engineering health metrics and platform success measures • Build reusable services, frameworks, tooling, platform capabilities, and engineering practices • Mentor engineers and technical leaders • Drive architectural documentation, technical decision records, and engineering guidance • Partner with Product, AI, External Partners, Data Science, and Platform Engineering • For Principal level: own technical integrity of ordering, fulfillment, invoicing, and royalty payment flows; define reliability standards; oversee integrations; communicate strategy and represent the platform in architecture forums

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems for the Principal-level role • Experience designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems in production • Experience defining technology strategy and leading cross-team architectural initiatives • Experience balancing hands-on engineering with long-term architecture, platform evolution, product strategy, and organizational priorities • Strong product thinking connecting backend and search strategy to user needs, business goals, product outcomes, and measurable impact • Deep expertise building distributed backend systems using Java or Python • Extensive experience with service-oriented architectures, REST APIs, asynchronous processing, and event-driven systems • Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture, scalability, reliability engineering, performance optimization, and modern observability practices • Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, relational and NoSQL databases, caching technologies, and messaging platforms • Experience building reusable platform capabilities, engineering standards, developer tooling, automation, and AI-assisted development workflows • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • For Principal level: experience with financially consequential systems; idempotent processing, deduplication, outbox and event-driven patterns, reconciliation, partial-failure recovery; production platform evolution; CRM, Finance, tax engine, and external partner integrations; reliability programs with SLOs, operational metrics, and incident practice • Domain experience in publishing, digital content licensing, royalty or rights management, or revenue operations is preferred • Must be able to work and reside in the continental United States • Must not require immigration sponsorship or additional/permanent work authorization sponsorship to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans • Employer-paid 10% retirement contribution • Paid parental and caregiver leave • 22 days of paid time off • 11 paid holidays • Up to 12 paid sick days • Wellness benefits

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